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34 points by iliabara

by mikert89

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by SilentEditor

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This is a clever way to make a dry, high-stakes topic actually approachable, and the game framing makes equity tradeoffs much easier to internalize.
How did you decide where to simplify versus stay financially accurate, and were there any startup-equity edge cases you intentionally left out because they made the game less intuitive? :)

by tailscaler2026

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by jmward01

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SaaSyCryptoAI - Leverage our custom AI driven backend to mint your own coin! Seriously though, great little lesson. It would be nice to factor in internal raises and a bit of granularity for when exercises happened to see final payouts and similar bonus topics but I would recommend this to anyone thinking about taking a job with options involved.

by nerdsniper

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Add the effects of "preferred overhang" on employee payouts for various different exit outcomes like acquisitions. Usually only founders and investors with "preferred shares" see anything and those with common stock (employees) see theirs get completely eaten by the overhang.

by fermatf

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Useful! I like playing such games where u simulate something from real world so you get playground to do mistakes.

by opengrass

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by jagged-chisel

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Yeah, that’s not how my company operates. I’m maintaining my majority share by splitting only. The VCs can go along, or they can hope their next investment is the unicorn.

by jiveturkey

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so many erroneous statements in this game. also it's not much of a "game", is it.

by nengil

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by vaporaviatorlab

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