[tomnipotent]

> except that OP was also paid

Except you're pulling that out of thin air with no proof and clearly no idea what kind of comp packages the average person has. Stripe isn't even a public company, how do you think she made all that money?

And she joined Stripe in 2015, when the company was already five years old. Whatever equity she received would be a pittance and issued at relatively high strike prices (Stripe had very favorable 409a's), and it's very unlikely for her role and experience level to be worth more than a year-or-two of salary.

[ergocoder]

Back in 2015, Stripe was worth between 3b and 10b. Right now it was worth 79b.

It is very likely her stock worth way more than a year or two of salary.

Yes, this is stock from private company.

Should we pity her for getting stripe private stock worth millions USD? Oh my god she is so sad right now. I'm crying for her. How is she going make a living?

[tomnipotent]

OP was a mid-level non-management marketing role post-Series C, for a company which has seen considerable dilution over five additional rounds since. I imagine OP's outcome will be at best a few years worth of annual salary, maybe shy of $1M if lucky. Dilution is a bitch (it raised 90% of total funding after OP would have been granted equity).