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Employees cannot wait, their shares expire without sale. These are being taxed.

Stripe can wait, that isn't the problem for them and is what they're doing. The board can also waive these fees, but that shifts liability from Stripe to each individual employee in question and that's the last thing they want, to piss off early employees.



I wasn’t suggesting to wait, rather than to IPO now. Employees could have liquid stock, I was suggesting a scenario where Stripe does the IPO now.

If they then wait for the same time until they will wait until Stripe IPOs, the stock would grow to the same level.




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