How do you value your equity in a startup you left?
Left a startup a few years ago and exercised all my options when I departed. They still are private and there is no public financial info other than their current valuation. The last 409a data point I have is when I left a few years ago. How do people usually keep tabs on their equity value over time?
There might be more accurate information on Forge Global for your old startup.
Check with sharespost and let them know you’re considering selling. They will let you know if your stock is marketable and if so what’s the latest price buyers have been paying.
You can reach out to their finance department and ask for the shares valuation on the most recent 3912. But you should value it at $0. That's the most likely outcome.
What is the value of the paper it's printed on or the email it was sent in?
^above sometimes true, sometimes not. My stock from a pre IPO startup I was formerly at (NOT docker) was worth 12x when I sold some via a secondary sale 2 years ago and is currently worth 20x per my contact at sharespost who keeps pinging me asking if I want to sell.
There are two $ values at play here: 409a valuation and market price.
They didn’t use Carta or a service like that?
I think it's always a good idea to exercise your stock option if you believe in your startup. Like Ymuk said, sometimes it can work out.
I have the shares in Carta, but they don’t have values for some reason... Anyways, signed up for SharesPost and saw some numbers there - thanks!
That the value is Zero