Title: (I&#x27;m sure this has been asked before, but I must be bad at search, because I couldn&#x27;t find the advice I was looking for).<p>I&#x27;m planning to leave the company I joined about 7 years ago as one of the first dozen or so employees. I have some options that are worth $X,000,000 as of the last tender offer, and would cost $X0,000 to buy. Exercising them isn&#x27;t a problem, but I doubt I could handle the taxes. The company itself was valued in the $500M-$1B range in the last funding round. I&#x27;d hate to leave the options behind, but even if I could afford them, that&#x27;s a ton of money to put at risk.<p>Does anyone have any experience with ESOfund? I&#x27;ve also heard that there are other private groups who help fund employee option purchases and taxes, but I don&#x27;t know much about them or even whether it&#x27;d work with my employer. Besides those, any other advice on what the best things to do are here?
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