[prostoalex]

Work at a software company with high-flying stock price before it becomes high-flying. So a grant that's worth low-to-medium six digits has hit a multiplication bonus on the stock market roulette wheel.

E.g. NFLX grants as recent as 2012 were made at sub-$10 prices, so a grant of 10,000-50,000 vesting over 4-5 would be possible. At current $98 price marker it's quite a pretty penny.

Similar examples: CRM@2009, GOOG@2009, FB@2013, AMZN@2011, NVDA@2014 and even some boring non-obvious places like PCLN@2008.