[calcsam]

The barrier to entry of this stock option tweak: it requires an informed populace, ie, us.

If you are a founder with reasonable engineer cred and announce differentiated stock option terms, ie, Adam D' Angelo at Quora, there's a reasonable chance that engineers considering joining your company will be encouraged by your effort on this.

If you're someone else, and your company offers this, many experienced engineers, not unreasonably, will value their equity packages at zero regardless of what you do. Many others, such as new grads, will not know enough about stock options to understand the distinction you're drawing.

If you do decide to offer RSUs for the reasons the authors cited, you may want to follow the example of Henry Ward at eShares and put together some good presentation materials to explain the benefits of this course. Otherwise, you're making an expensive choice for little benefit.

[a_small_island]

>"If you are a founder with reasonable engineer cred"

Can you expand on this? Are you of the mind that engineers should only trust other engineers?