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Should You Exercise Your Options at Your Private Company? 4 Approaches to Consider

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This is for all you private-company employees out there who still have your job. And have exercisable stock options hanging over your head, causing persistent low-key anxiety about:

Should I be doing something with these?

My (private) company is doing a tender offer. Should I participate?

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When you work at a private company, you might dream about your company going IPO one day, and all your company stock turning into riches. If you’re reading this post, I imagine you are now contending with one of the other ways to turn private-company stock into grocery money: a tender offer.

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You have lots of private-company stock. Should you sell it on a private secondary market?

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You’ve got gobs of stock or options in Airbnb. Or Palantir. Or some other valuable but private company. The money is So Close. You can almost feel it. And yet, you can’t. ‘Cause your company is private. Oh, the torture.

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Should You Exercise Your Options (in a private company)…to Give Your Career More Flexibility?

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Should I exercise my options? When should I exercise my options?

If you work in a private company, I’m betting these questions go through your head with annoying frequency. And they’re hard questions to answer! Will the company succeed? Will the stock be worth anything? A lot? It’s all crystal-ball territory and therefore there are very few obvious or knowable answers.

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Tag: privately held company

Should You Exercise Your Options at Your Private Company? 4 Approaches to Consider

My (private) company is doing a tender offer. Should I participate?

You have lots of private-company stock. Should you sell it on a private secondary market?

Should You Exercise Your Options (in a private company)…to Give Your Career More Flexibility?

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