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by minaguib 4442 days ago
That really makes no sense.

"Here are options to buy 10,000 shares"

"Umm. Thanks. Is that a lot ? Is it peanuts ?"

Without knowing the second number you might as well not be having that discussion.

1 comments

Yeah, it's crazy. But it's super-common. I always ask how many shares are outstanding, and nobody ever has the information at hand. It's like they said, "We're going to give you 10,000 units of some currency. But we won't tell you whether it's a Zimbabwe dollar (current value: $0.002) or a Euro (current value: $1.38)."