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Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?
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#2So I think you mean stock option grants... because otherwise you should have an equal number of choices for negative values.
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#3stock call options? where are the negative options?
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#4Depends on what you mean by stock options. I imagine quite a few people here trade single-stock (e.g. AAPL https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL) options.
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#5I made over 6 figures from a post-IPO, listed company.
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#6Depends on what you mean by stock options. I imagine quite a few people here trade single-stock (e.g. AAPL https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL ) options.
They mean ESOs or RSUs
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#7Hm, I suspect you will get a lot of "$0" answers from folks who have only been out of school since 2008, and much higher answers from folks who were in the Valley pre-2001.
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#8Depends on what you mean by stock options. I imagine quite a few people here trade single-stock (e.g. AAPL https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL ) options.
They mean ESOs or RSUs
RSU's are different that stock options, no? I answered zero as I have never had anything come from options, while RSUs have been very nice.
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#9I have only had above water options at one of three start-ups I worked for.
Pre-IPO stock options should be viewed as lottery tickets unless one is a founder. Still, they motivated me.
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#10I made about $2,500 for 2000 shares once when my company was bought out and was promised $50,000 more if the company hit certain milesones. We did not hit said milestones.