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by birken 3394 days ago
Zach Holman has a great article about it: https://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-windo...

And keeps an ongoing list of companies that offer extended exercise windows: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows

As somebody who has personally experienced every aspect of the stock option lifecycle (which fortunately worked out for me), I would never take a job at a company [1] if they didn't have an extended exercise window. The 90 day expiration period creates a massive gap between the risk/reward of equity for founders and the risk/reward of equity for employees, when the whole point of giving equity is to align those.

1: Assuming it was the type of company that compensated people with stock options