Just want to see how much people earn actual cash from their employee stock options. If you joined a startup as an employee and had some stock options, how much did you earn during exit or IPO?
Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
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Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#2I assume this poll is still valid with straight equity instead of options? I voted as such.
Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#3I think people should select the value they were able to sell their options for (post IPO) as opposed to the value of their options on IPO day... As lockout periods almost always keep employees from exiting for quite a long period after an IPO.
Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#4Note: voted twice for two different exits. Fortunately for the poll they had different outcomes :)
Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#5After we got acquired by Microsoft the option were converted over to MS options and the strike price was something like $1.14. Yeah, the stock plunged; but I was pretty confident they'd never be underwater :)
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#6It might be interesting to split this by exactly what sort of exit -- a talent acquisition is just as much an exit as an IPO or a high-priced buyout, but probably won't give nearly the same payout.
Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#7Maybe there should be an option "None - never had stock options"?
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#8There isn't a $60K - $100K option, but that would be me.
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#9You need another option.
None - Didn't consider it worth paying for options on exit.
Re: Poll: How much did you earn from your stock options during exit?
#10Can there be a "Company folded, stock options got bought out from under me without my consent for pennies to give to the people who were buying the remains of said Company" option?
If so, price it at $200 dollars, and i'll vote for it.
On one of my final days I was handed a check for my shares, because I wasn't going with the new owners, and all stock was to be given to them. Was never asked if I wanted to sell, and it was valued extremely low for "accounting purposes"...