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by s1artibartfast 1686 days ago
There is simply no way to tell. It all depends on how many shares there are at the time you sell. VC funding can change this. Do you know how many shares there are today?

If there is a 25B valuation and 25B shares at the time of sale, your shares would be worth 20K (and you overpaid).

If there is a 25B valuation and 25 million shares, you would be worth 20M

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According to the stock options plan document, there are 2.5M shares reserved for issuance for the plan. Of course, that says nothing about total shares.
This might be helpful:

https://carta.com/blog/equity-101-stock-economics/

If your options were priced at the $250 million valuation, and no dilution occurs, the stock value would be 3$*IPO valuation/$250M.

Dilution events are pretty common, even for companies that are revenue positive.

I would recommend viewing the options as a potential windfall, but not part of any compensation evaluation or financial planning.