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		01HNNWZ0MV43FF 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only... I remember when my old employer was doing another round of funding They offered to sell me more shares I countered that I'd been trying to dump the shares they already gave me and if the shares are truly worth X dollars they should buy them back from me Anyway glad I quit

debatem1 5 months ago [–]

> if the shares are truly worth X dollars they should buy them back from me

I always offer companies pushing equity hard to trade for cash at 10% of the highest number they try to get me to value it at. Nobody has ever taken me up on it, even when they really should have.

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