Company sale screws stock options?
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Anonymous
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Company A is buying company B at half its current valuation. Rumor is the founder wants to cash in now for personal reasons.
They’ll be rich, tho not as rich as the valuation implies. Is their no duty to the stock option holders to get a better deal? How could the “valuation” be so wrong? |
Anonymous
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This happened to me during an IPO. It’s the risk you take by accepting a job offer that includes deferred compensation, but it also sucks. In my case I quit shortly after because it was infuriating to realize how much energy I’d devoted to making my boss rich.
It’s easier to tolerate at a large company than one in which you know and see the founder every day, especially if you’ve bought into the “we’re all in this together” corporate nonsense. It showed me how disposable I was and how irrelevant my work was to the founder’s true motivation, which was not to build a better world with our products but really just to make himself rich. |
Anonymous
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You're asking how it's possible for a small company to lose value? Have you ever looked at a stock price chart?
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