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murbard2 on Aug 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase

As t→∞ an option becomes indistinguishable from its underlyer, why don't they give RSUs? Taxes?

mcfunley on Aug 6, 2015 | [–]

Yes: taxes.

murbard2 on Aug 7, 2015 | | [–]

So are the taxes also worse if you increase the exercise window? Is it more tax efficient to issue 100 year stock options vs RSU?

rosser on Aug 6, 2015 | [–]

Yay Unicode!

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murbard2 on Aug 6, 2015 | [–]

fixed

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