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VC Option Shenanigans
My company is being acquired by a public company (both US based). When we were all hired, our employment contracts stated we'd be granted x number of stock options. I'll say 250,000. That was 3 ...
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Is story on how Skype employees stock options end up being worthless on acquisition common or not?
This is in response to the latest story about how Skype stock options are worthless:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/24/upgrading-skype-and-silver-lake-to-evil/
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Valueless stock options on exit
A friend of mine is at a startup, and the startup is having a big exit. It is being bought by a large company. Everything sounds great, except... he has only unvested stock options and under the ...
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Company got acquired — what might happen to my stock options? (not an employee yet)
A private company that I accepted a job offer with, got acquired by a public well known company. I should start there on June 1, 2011. They notified me that the offer is still valid.
The offer says:
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Non Voting Stock in an Acquisition
This might be a UK specific question - not sure if the same applies in the US...
I have a number of 'B Class' shares in a company that, at some point, could be acquired. These B Class shares have no ...
