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Podcast: The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
Episode: Turning Expiring Options Into Venture Exposure [Vested’s Dave Thornton] | #597
Description: Today’s guest is Dave Thornton, co-founder & Chief Customer Officer of Vested, which helps startup employees unlock the value in their equity.
In today’s episode, Dave walks through the messy reality of startup stock options, noting $600 billion of startup equity is abandoned over a market cycle. He explains how Vested helps solve this problem by providing funding to help employees exercise their expiring stock options, in exchange for exposure to a portion of the now-owned shares.
Dave also previews Vestimate, a tool to track the fair-market value of your equity over time that’s alread...