Can someone help me understand...<p>Let&#x27;s say an employee was granted 10,000 stock options at $1&#x2F;share. They&#x27;re all vested.<p>Does this mean that each share will be worth $9? So if exercised and cashed out, the employee would essentially earn $80,000 (before taxes)?<p>Trying to understand how the economics of all of this works.<p>Also, does this mean there are 300,000,000 shares? (How many shares do start-ups usually start with before funding rounds and what not? Seems like Square must&#x27;ve started with 100,000,000 or something.)<p>So many questions.