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teej on Jan 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

Worse than making no money, you could have exercised your stock options for any number of totally valid reasons and lost some or all of that cash.

rockinghigh on Jan 11, 2018 [–]

If you exercised, wouldn't you be able to sell after the IPO?

dingdongding on Jan 11, 2018 | [–]

No. You still go thru 6 month lock in period

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