If you started at Airbnb several years ago, you might be coming up hard and fast on an unpleasant deadline: The expiration of your options.
My Airbnb Options Are Expiring Soon. What Should I Do with Them?
What Should I Do with My Vesting RSUs, Now that the Stock Market Is Tanking?
You have lots of private-company stock. Should you sell it on a private secondary market?
Are you letting your vested RSUs just sit there, for lack of a better idea? (Video)
Uber’s Going IPO! What Do I Do?! Will I Be Rich? Ahhhh!
Perhaps by now you’ve settled down after reading the news of the Uber IPO filing a few days ago. My clients who used to work at Uber are, of course, Pretty Darn Excited about the announcement that Uber has filed for IPO, likely in Q1 of 2019.Continue reading
I own a ton of company stock. I’m supposed to be doing something with it, right? Right?
Do you find yourself, after a few years of working at the same company, the proud owner of a whacking big pile of company stock?
My Takeaways from #GHC18. And Yes They’re All About Money.
I think I’m still processing the scale and energy of the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. This was my second year attending.
The conference is, obviously, about so much more than how to manage your finances. But it’s the part I care about most, so I viewed most of the conference through that lens. And, as I did last year, I walked away with a better understanding of how women feel about money, what their questions are, and what kind of guidance they want, need, and deserve.
Should You Ask for RSUs or Stock Options?
When you get a job offer, or a raise, or a bonus, you’re probably simply told that you’ll be receiving more restricted stock units or more stock options as part of that compensation package. But on occasion folks are given the choice: Do you want RSUs or stock options?
What happens to my stock options after my company goes IPO?
Congratulations! It might seem like all tech companies go IPO, but that’s not true. In going IPO, your company is in rarified company. And now visions of sugarplums, I mean, wealth are dancing in your head.
Investing is risky. Increasing your earning power is the best protection you have.
Whether you’re a confident investor, or you have a bunch of your money hiding out in cash, I think we can pretty much all agree that the stock market is unpredictable.
Historically it has always gone up…eventually, and so it’s reasonable for us to assume it’ll continue in that vein. But we can’t actually know that.
So, how do we protect against the possibility that the stock market will stop working the way it has in the past?
My company hit it big! What do I do with all this stock?
Some of the problems in the high tech industry are enviable problems to have. To wit: having a lot of company stock because your company made it big.Continue reading
What happened to Apple can happen to you(r company)
Apple stock fell 14% last month. More importantly, in the last year, Apple’s stock has dropped by over a quarter. I don’t really care why.
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