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> Anyone that has options at a company that grows quickly would be paying tens or hundreds of thousands in taxes to keep their equity, which is still effectively a very risky bet that a company will end up huge.

No. Most companies give their employees ISOs, which arent affected by this bill. So it would actually be 0 change to the employees. What this affects is the investors or potentially the founders of a startup



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