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Is Airbnb EVER Going Public?

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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My Airbnb Options Are Expiring Soon. What Should I Do with Them?

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.

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

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.

Report from the Women-in-Tech Front (a.k.a. GHC19)

Things I learned at Grace Hopper this year:

I cannot do basic arithmetic while standing in front of an audience of 200 people. 100 x 1000 really should be doable.
Yes there is a wrong way to hold the slide clicker, Mr. “You can’t mess it up” A/V guy. Just Watch Me.

Flow FP's Block Woman is hit by some paperwork challenges.

Are You Waiting for the Uber Lockup to Expire? The Logistical Details You Need to Implement Your Strategy.

If you read my last blog post about the upcoming expiration of the Uber IPO lockup, you might have noticed that I barely mentioned tax and legal details.

Flow FP's block woman careens toward November 6 in her Uber

Are You Waiting for the Uber Lockup to Expire? Here’s How You Can Prepare.

I know many things about the upcoming expiration of the Uber lockup:

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Why is it so hard to get a handle on my cash flow? Surely this should be easier!

Do you ever feel that your cash flow should be easier to get a hold of? You should be able to automate it? Not have to think about it so much? Not have to move money around with your delicate hands so often?
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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.Read More

Flow FP's Block Woman contemplates two piles of stock, one larger but more ephemeral than the other.

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.