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by amit_m 3695 days ago
Why is it the norm that employees even need to pay cash to buy their options? Why don't companies set the exercise price to zero? Or if one must have a non-zero exercise price - why isn't there a way to do something like a "cashless exercise"? (i.e. buy your vested options by selling a small fraction of them back to the company).