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> My response is “great! Let businesses take a lesson here: give all your employees a chunk of the company. Let’s all share in the success!”

Don't >95% of tech companies offer stock options or equity, from startups to FAANG?



A cursory search says 74-90% (in the US), but also that’s just tech companies and usually you need to be early. It’s also often in the form of options that take years to exercise and companies have gotten very creative lately in how they screw people out of them.

Looooots of caveats here.




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