employee equity Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:56:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png employee equity Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 How to Trade Salary for Equity https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/trade-salary-for-equity/ Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:14:00 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4647 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs These days it’s more important than ever to maximize the financial value you extract from your job. In You Need Equity To Live In Silicon Valley […]

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]]> The Impact of Dilution https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/impact-of-dilution/ Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:52:47 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4593 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs Most people don’t realize that the percentage of the company they are initially awarded when they start a new job is not  what they will ultimately […]

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]]> The Two Types of Job Offers https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/two-types-job-offers/ Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:09:33 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4581 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs In the past we have written numerous posts to help you evaluate specific job offers, but recently we realized we neglected a critical piece of information. […]

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]]> An Employee Perspective on Equity https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/an-employee-perspective-on-equity/ Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:21:49 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4227 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs A couple of days ago we wrote a post for company founders that describes our proposal for allocating equity to attract and retain outstanding employees.  We […]

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]]> The Wealthfront Equity Plan https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/the-right-way-to-grant-equity-to-your-employees/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:06:37 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4219 “The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees. Before companies like Fairchild and Hewlett-Packard began the practice fifty years ago, distributing stock options to anyone other […]

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]]> IPO 101 Series: What Happens to Employees After the Big Day? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/ipo-101-series-what-happens-to-employees-after-the-big-day/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:00:53 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4103 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs In our previous posts, we’ve covered why companies go public, and how the IPO process works. In this post, we jump to the first day of trading […]

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