This is Josh, of the authors of the Guide. First, thanks to everyone for the comments and feedback.
Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason! This guide has a lot of shortcomings as it's very new, but our goal for this is to be a "living" guide, not yet another read-and-comment blog post. After commenting here, please consider filing an issue or PR with questions or suggested improvements. A community as talented as this one knows vastly more collectively than any individual authors. We can then discuss and work to get suggestions incorporated.
You put in your equity percent and how the "costs" associated with it-- both exercise costs, and the "opportunity" costs such as smaller salary over X years, or unvested shares at current company--- and it spits out a grid of how much your options would be worth in various combinations of dilution and exit values.
I think it'd be a good addition to a guide like this but I'm not really sure how to best integrate something like this in a .md document or another page that will run inside github. Right now someone has to make a copy to their own Google account and mess with the inputs to use it, which is a bit cumbersome.
> Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason!
Totally understand. I've upvoted your comment, hope everyone else does as well so that people can see this first before expending energy on a comment that should have simply been a PR (or at least a filed issue).
Also, please remember this is a GitHub project for a reason! This guide has a lot of shortcomings as it's very new, but our goal for this is to be a "living" guide, not yet another read-and-comment blog post. After commenting here, please consider filing an issue or PR with questions or suggested improvements. A community as talented as this one knows vastly more collectively than any individual authors. We can then discuss and work to get suggestions incorporated.