Medium, Avesh Singh 2017: "Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee. Should you early-exercise your stock options? When you early-exercise, you purchase unvested options upfront and then receive the shares at vesting time (you should have received a vesting schedule when you joined).

Medium, Avesh Singh 2017: "Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee. Should you early-exercise your stock options? When you early-exercise, you purchase unvested options upfront and then receive the shares at vesting time (you should have received a vesting schedule when you joined).