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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank 2019

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC's have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large company. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a…

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