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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?

Your Company Is Going Public. The Power of a Good Question. Or 5.

Much of the work of personal finance isn’t objective. There isn’t An Answer. Because it’s “personal” just as much as it is “finance.”

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Airbnb Is Going Public. Time to Create a (Flexible) Strategy.

Flow FP's Block Woman launches in AirBnB's Apollo 11 rocket.

Soooo…Airbnb’s going public. Can I get a woo woooo?!

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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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Is Airbnb EVER Going Public?

Flow FP's Block Woman, overwhelmed by paper, feels a sense of Urgency. Of sorts.

Have you been waiting a Very Long Time for Airbnb to go public? Did you get all excited back in September of last year when Airbnb announced that it would go public in 2020? Are you beginning to wonder if it will ever happen? All that lovely stock, all those beautiful RSUs, all those tempting stock options…when will they turn into MONEY?!

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

Flow FP's block woman balances precariously on a large pile of stock.

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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Tag: private company stock

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

Your Company Is Going Public. The Power of a Good Question. Or 5.

Airbnb Is Going Public. Time to Create a (Flexible) Strategy.

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

Is Airbnb EVER Going Public?

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

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