Would You Stay if Your Vested Options Were Worth Millions?
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 by Frank RocheGoogle’s employee stock options have come due. Bigtime. To the tune of $2 billion already vested and ready for cashout. That means there are a lot of Google employees who are moving from paper millionaires to real millionaires. That brought to mind the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” What would you do?
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chris
Apr 16th, 2007
Good grief I think I would be out of there so fast they would see nothing but my back end. Google has become the Microsoft in terms of making their employees rich.
Frank Roche
Apr 17th, 2007
Chris, I fear I’m in that camp too. As much as I love what I do, digging my toes in the sand and having the biggest decision I make every day being where to have lunch is a bit more compelling.