> If you were an employee and had $200k total value in your options, and you could sell 10%, you're getting $20k. Not really enough to de-risk your life although still might be welcome (and employees would appreciate having the choice).
$20k would be a life changing amount of money for me right now
People often forget how financially limited they were when they were young. There are even college freshmen reading your comment for whom $1k would change their lives. Such as this one who is currently contributing to Textadept on school machines from 2013 on NixOS installed on a USB drive (don't recommend, CPU I/O wait time is frequently >%50) because he spilled coffee on his laptop last semester.
$20k would be a life changing amount of money for me right now