Assuming there’s more than one possibility. What’s the most common outcome?
Is Amazon buying Facebook?
I hear the "book" in Facebook is the reason. They want to own anything books related.
Sometimes options have what’s called “accelerated vesting events” one of which is an acquisition. In that case you would just get all your options converted if the offer for your company was in cash. At other times, you would get shares of the new company like someone mentioned already
That's a "single trigger acceleration," I think double triggers are more common these days. OP, you can read more about these at https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-double-trigger-acceleration-and-how-does-it-work/
Someone please acquire Groupon now!
When LinkedIn got acquired, our stock grants got converted to the equivalent in Microsoft stock with the same vesting schedule.
Oh interesting. Did they put a premium on the stock valuation? Or was it based on some average price over a period of time?
I am guessing the premium was baked into the acquisition price.