Anyone here from Eazydiner team? Is this true? Have you received liquidity for your ESOPs? If so let us know your experience.

Haven't heard a lot about it, but I'm sure folks working there since 2017-18 or so would have made close to 3-4 Cr by now? did some mid-senior people retire from that money?

Hello guys, I would want to know what is the benefit of getting ESOPs in an early stage startup? The startup has a great team and working on a promising product. I have been offered a package with somewhat lower fixed component and somewhat higher ESOPs. Need insightful pointers here. TIA :)

Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA! A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup About my career: - Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school - Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying Shoot away!

Were your ESOPs liquidated? If yes please contribute to the list. Company: Value of ESOPs when vested: Year of vesting: Value of ESOPs when liquidated: Year of liquidation: Personal story : yes/no Source of liquidation: buy back/ acquisition/IPO/ investors buy back… Would be really helpful for all of us if you contribute to this chain. Please do mention if your esops were never liquidated as well. Helps the community understand the reality behind esops.

It's always something to look forward to in a startup. But wanting to know if it's actually meaningful. Are you making good money from it? Anybody around you who is making good money from it. This would really help a lot of us in startups know what to expect 🙏

So Bewakoof got acquired by Aditya Birla group and sent a mail to employees that their ESOPs are now worthless “as determined by the board.” I mean, I know what they’re doing is completely legal, they must have covered themselves with escape clauses, but how are founders okay with this? They basically ripped off and wiped off the wealth of the very employees that worked for them for years. Shameful, man! Never buying from this shit company again. Not that it will matter, but won’t give a penny to this hideous organization.

Would you rather sell at a devaluation and access liquidity or hope that next buy back allows you greater rewards?

Hi Folks, I wanted to understand few things related to ESOPS for unlisted companies. Let's say, A company(startup) is offering me a package of 20LPA as fixed component and 4L worth of ESOPS(25% vesting) each year. Consider the date of the above offer date as 1st April 2024 and share value is Rs100/- (1st April 2024) as per the company so ideally 4000 shares Since 20LPA is fixed component, I'll get the salary after tax calculation - all good here. On 1st April 2025 , what happens ? Assumption that share price is constant for one year and has not changed for better understanding. Ideally I get 1000 shares at discounted price? In general , how much discount is offered. If I have to buy at a discounted price, is it really beneficial from financial standpoint? If I'm buying the shares even at a discounted price, why is it a part of CTC since I would be paying it from my pocket? Requesting folks to help me with the clarification as this will help me in negotiations with future employment

How much cash in the bank have you earned through ESOPs (not the value on paper) It would be helpful if you could also mention the time period in which it was earned, the funding stage of the company when you joined and at what role did you join, yoe. Evaluating an offer from a seed stage startup.

Where did you work and how much money did you make? Asking as it looks like a lot of promise of ESOPs and wealth creation has failed employees in this bloodbath slow growth, layoffs, and job changes.