The Information reports Netflix’s share price decline last week wiped out the value of all stock options issued to Netflix employees since 2018. Staff pressed management on issuing additional grants to offset losses in a meeting last week. Netflix allows employees to decide their own compensation ...Read more
Can any PMs or SWEs working at early stage companies in Chicago speak to what number of stock options you received when joining a company and what’s “fair” in this market? Company info: Series A - Less than $10 mil raised to date. Valuation isn’t public as far as I can tell 30-40 employees - I’d be...Read more
I have some vested SoFi Stock Options. I recently left SoFi and I have 60 days left to exercise the options. I am not sure whether it would go IPO in coming years. So I am in confusion whether to buy the options. Any thoughts?
Heard that you’re not given stocks but you actually have to BUY stock options at Bolt. Is this common?? If you work at Bolt, how much do you buy a year? 🤔 #tech #bolt
How do Netflix stock options work? I currently got a job offer from them and I feel like this is too good to be true? They say I get 40% off the stock price. Why wouldn’t I just put in my entire paycheck in and pull out what I want when I need it. What am I missing? Is there trading windows? What’s ...Read more
Is it a good idea to exercise vested stock before ipo. With a locking period of 6 months from October or November. Still working in the company Grant price around 38 and fmv around 60 and vested stocks 10k Is it good to exercise now and wait a year and sell to save taxes? What are the points to ...Read more
Netflix allows employees to buy options of stock at current price as strike price at 40% premium pre-tax. How is it better than buying open market options of Netflix stock at current price as strike price at about 20% premium only(2 year+ expiry) Did some math on different scenarios. Looks like ope...Read more
I decided to accept an opportunity with Tesla and the recruiter is asking me split between RSUs & Stock Options (3 stock options per RSU) I'm new to this RSU/Option game, I understand that stock options are riskier but could offer a higher return. What do you recommend? Getting $175k over 4 years...Read more
o Current Founder/Partner at the Employee Stock Option Fund o ESO helps startup employees exercise and get liquidity for their stock options while minimizing their taxes (Since 2012, we have helped over 1,100 employees at more than 450 companies) o Joined the venture capital industry in 1997 as a Ka...Read more
Sitting on an offer at a late stage startup. Two questions. 1) Does each stock option typically give the right to buy 100 shares (like in a call option), or is it right to buy one share? 2) Company is unable to provide typical numbers needed to calculate value of each stock option. Yes this is bad...Read more
Do you think it’s worth buying the stock options when you leave? Will have less than two years vested.
I was at Netflix and participated in the stock options program so have approx 450k in options expiring in 4-7 years. I could obviously sell the ones ITM now but would be leaving money on the table bc of the remaining time value. Is there any secondary market for these where I could sell them at a pr...Read more
Hi A lot of blinders work in unicorns like Databricks, Stripe,Instacart,Flexe,Chime,Brex,Figma, Sysdig, Lacework(Lacework might be $0 valuation 😂) etc. What happened to your valuation during 2022 stock market rout? I think y’all better join Tesla because Tesla is goin $10,000 per share and your ...Read more
Does asking 0.5% of companies valuation a good stock option to ask for series B company in Bay area ?
Asking for a friend (YOE: 0). Confluent has given two options: 1. 5050 RSUs with 4 year vesting 2. 10100 stock options with 4 year vesting Which one should be preferred?
"The company’s corporate parent (“Rakuten”), maintains the Rakuten, Inc. Stock Option Program (the “Program”). Each Rakuten stock option has an exercise price equal to one Japanese yen and covers 100 shares of Rakuten common stock.In other words, each Rakuten stock option is worth the market price o...Read more
Could anyone at Figma share what to expect in terms of stock options for l3/4/5? It's hard to find data on that unfortunately. TC: 145k
Hello, I’m new to startup world. And I have a very noob question. A company has ~100M stock units and if the employees gets the right to buy 45k stock options at X strike price. Is 45k options == 0.045% of company? For Series D is 45k (vested over 4 years) is a good amount of stock options for EM...Read more
So Argo is shutting down. Rightly so. Ford and other automakers who are not into delusion of full self driving realizing this can’t continue like this anymore. I am just curious what is happening to the stock options of employees who worked at Argo AI? There isn’t any IPO or acquisition. It’s a shu...Read more