Where Age Is No Barrier
What is a dollar bill worth? Certainly, it has an assigned value: A dollar is a dollar, it’s one hundred cents. But the value you put on that dollar is very personal. How important is it to your well-being? Does it give you status? What …
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Stock options are sexy. They represent the dreamy future of a startup, reinforced by envy-inspiring stories of early employees at rocketship companies that IPO. What you don’t hear are the stories of the many more employees at companies …
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ISO. 439A. AMT. 83B. Understanding equity can seem at first like deciphering a code. It’s one of the most confusing and opaque aspects of compensation at tech companies, so is often neglected. I speak from experience. I was lazy about …
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“How much do you make?” Such a question has historically been in bad taste, at best. But today, with new tools and a movement towards transparency, tech employees are freely sharing compensation information and learning there are (no …
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One of the reasons I wrote Employee 6 Is 54, was to shine a light on how startups work. If you’re over 50 and not a technologist, you most likely cut your career teeth on a traditional company. One where clear hierarchies existed, revenue …
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