2026-04-01 17:11 UTC
Last time I had to do this was a startup. We all worked insane hours trying to get the product off the ground but then
- layoffs just short of a year so can save on severance
- unemployment lower than my current mortgage
- paid money to buy out my options in case the company made it, but a couple weeks later they reissued them to zero
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@nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-01 23:39
I assume this is what happens when you exercise stock options and so it's better to just look at them and think that they're interesting and that's about it
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@titanicx@lemmy.zip 2026-04-02 19:27
Well I mean a lot of that's on you. You overworked yourself for some sort of self-gratification. You then paid money to the company for worthless stock in their company because you still somehow believed in them. I mean so many things here that you did wrong when you should have just accepted that startups often fail and the majority do and never go anywhere. And so at that point you just walk away and go find to the next thing.