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How Stock Options Work Chapter 2: Why Stock Options vs. Just getting Paid Cash 479 Views
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Thank you We sneak in Why stock options versus just
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getting paid cash Well where their startups their decisions about
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resource allocation the management makes all the time the fancy
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way of saying that most start ups don't have enough
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cash to do all that they want Well if you
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work at coca cola or ibm or disney when a
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project comes up that makes sense it gets the cash
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it needs to get it off the ground That is
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disney wants teo say play video on the web in
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forty languages Well it already has the money to make
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that happen and it doesn't need speculative venture capital from
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outside investors to fund the translators coders and product managers
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it needs to build that product But when shmoop wanted
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to make its first few thousand videos well it was
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a struggle We'll start it Just don't have a lot
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of cash on that leads us to the reason you're
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here musing about stock options Well this course is made
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for those of you at a start up wondering what
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on earth eggs options things are Well if you're working
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at whatever dot com you're probably working there for less
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cash than you'd make doing more or less the same
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job But disney or ibm or coca cola or wherever
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you work at a start up because you love the
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excitement of building new things and changing the world But
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you aren't doing it for charity Rather you're taking a
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financial risk that the company will eventually do well and 00:01:34.532 --> [endTime] that you'll get paid for it handsomely No
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