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Last time I had to do this was a startup. We all worked insane hours trying to get the product off the ground but then
I assume this is what happens when you exercise stock options and so it's better to just look at them and think that they're interesting and that's about it
It’s at least scammy but I don’t see how it’s aboveboard at all. It was only like $200 so not worth the cost of finding out
I did spend like a decade trying startups in the hope of one making it, without any luck. Interestingly the only buyout that got me anything was a midsized company, not a startup, purchased by a large company. The founders not options that have panned out was a midsized company bought by a private equity, where they’ve paid cash
unless you're a founder or an investor, you want the cash and the experience. stock options are diluted every time they do a funding round, because it means they are issuing new shares
Well I mean a lot of that's on you. You overworked yourself for some sort of self-gratification. You then paid money to the company for worthless stock in their company because you still somehow believed in them. I mean so many things here that you did wrong when you should have just accepted that startups often fail and the majority do and never go anywhere. And so at that point you just walk away and go find to the next thing.