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I've posted this in a previous thread about equity options, but I made this Google Docs spreadsheet that helps model the potential payout of various stock options: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L-hwCRXKDwmOPqXCwQo4...

You put in your equity percent and how the "costs" associated with it-- both exercise costs, and the "opportunity" costs such as smaller salary over X years, or unvested shares at current company--- and it spits out a grid of how much your options would be worth in various combinations of dilution and exit values.

I think it'd be a good addition to a guide like this but I'm not really sure how to best integrate something like this in a .md document or another page that will run inside github. Right now someone has to make a copy to their own Google account and mess with the inputs to use it, which is a bit cumbersome.

edit: went ahead and made a issue in GH for more detailed discussion rather than doing it here: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/issues/27




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