HRchat Podcast

Employee Stock Options w/ Oren Barzilai, EquityBee

The HR Gazette Season 1 Episode 360

Employees in startups in the US are, according to findings published in carta.com, losing $30B every year in unexercised stock options, because 50% do not exercise their stock options upon leaving a company.

Bill's guest this time is Oren Barzilai, Founder and CEO at EquityBee, a company on a mission to help startup employees obtain the capital they need to exercise their stock options.

Oren is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to EquityBee, he co-founded and served as the CEO at Start A Fire, a social marketing platform, that served more than 3,000 of the world's biggest brands. Before that, he co-founded and served as the CTO at Tapingo, a mobile commerce application that was acquired by GrubHub for $150 million.

Listen and Get Oren's Answers to Questions Including: 

  • Why do stock options remain major collateral when employers are trying to attract and retain top talent?
  • Paint a picture of the impact on employees of unexercised stock options
  • How does EquityBee try to help employees extract value from the compensation they were promised?
  • Secondary platforms allow employees who already own shares to sell their shares to investors outright. Is EquityBee the same? If not, why not?
  • Any tips for new employees to negotiate their stock options package when they join a company?

About EquityBee

EquityBee's goal is to enable employees to exercise their stock options and benefit from the value they created while employed at pre-IPO technology companies. EquityBee’s Investor Community provides the capital startup builders need to become shareholders.

EquityBee was founded by Oren Barzilai, Oded Golan, and Mody Radashkovich, who have a combined 25 years of experience in technology and finance.

Inspired by their own personal experience in the startup world where they witnessed countless employees, colleagues, and friends lose out on a significant part of their compensation because they couldn’t afford to exercise the options they worked so hard to earn, EquityBee’s founders

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