Dave Thornton
3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2025 by Dave Thornton · across every show →
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Nov 6, 2025 negative
Taxing illiquid paper gains on startup stock option exercises is structurally unfair
“Then there is the tax cost, which is the tax that is actually associated with the act of exercising. That is typically applied to the paper gain between the current board approved fair market value of the stock as of the moment you're exercising and whatever y…”
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Traditional option lenders ignore rank-and-file employees for multi-million dollar executives
“What we saw was the commonality between all of them. I just described a very crowded market was that they were all focused on senior people that were leaving really late stage private companies. And so if you need twelve million dollars and you just left Strip…”