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| Nov 28, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | TomTom | "For a stock price to rise 400% in a reasonable amount of time seems to me like a rather bold assumption" AMD in 2018 after the ZEN architecture. Apple when it was nearly bankrupt and got Steve Jobs back. Microsoft during the forming years. And there are way more. Facebook did NOT start with a billion heavy market capitalzation. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 19:11 | comment | added | Mike Scott | Actually, when I had stock options (not at CEO level, alas), the increase in price from the option price to the price I sold them at was seventeen-fold. That was a startup, admittedly, but a five-fold increase is not that unrealistic. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:20 | comment | added | Peter K. | Stock options do not need to be pitched at market price. It might cost the employee 200k to exercise the options, but the actual return may be much higher. Though I still agree, 400% return is pretty spiffy (and unlikely) !! | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 14:22 | comment | added | user | For a stock price to rise 400% in a reasonable amount of time seems to me like a rather bold assumption. But sure, I can't argue with the outcome based on that assumption. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 12:17 | history | answered | Mike Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |