• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    Stock options: “if you make the thing work, you’ll be able to cash in on the stock price increase”

    Pre-sale: “pay us now, find about later”

    One incentivizes cooperation, the other can be a way to get support from large investors to grow a new business… or a scam to cash out from a 19 year old unprofitable one.