I&#x27;m going to post anonymously, but even so, I&#x27;m afraid I have to disagree with how you&#x27;re looking at this.<p>According to the article he made about $750k over four years at Box ($95k&#x2F;yr salary + $350k in options total), but would have made nearly 60% <i>more</i>, or $1.2M, working for a more firmly established post-IPO tech company during the same time
(say $160k&#x2F;yr base salary + $40k&#x2F;yr bonuses + $100k&#x2F;yr in restricted stock).<p>Still wouldn&#x27;t have been able to buy a Bay Area house (not sure why you suggest it could), but he would have had all of the other payouts you listed, with basically no downside risk at all.<p>Seems like pre-IPO companies like Box are increasingly a bad deal for the employees. I&#x27;m genuinely sorry you guys ended up getting the short end of that stick.