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holman/extended-exercise-windows
A list of startups that have employee-friendly terms for exercising your options past 90 days.
A community-maintained markdown list of startups that give employees more than 90 days to exercise stock options after leaving. No code, no tooling — just a table in a README. Useful for anyone evaluating a job offer and wanting to know if a company has thought about employee-friendly equity terms.
The problem it solves is real: the 90-day window is a trap that forces employees to either pay up or forfeit options, and most people don't know to ask about it. The list is reasonably well-maintained with 140+ forks suggesting active contributions. It distinguishes between active companies and those that reached an exit, which is an honest and useful distinction. The VCs section calling out a16z by name for opposing extended windows is exactly the kind of blunt context that makes a list like this worth reading.
Staleness is a structural problem — there's no verification mechanism, so windows listed here may have quietly changed after a down round or leadership shift. Several linked sources are Triplebyte profile pages, and Triplebyte shut down in 2023, meaning those citations are now dead. There's no date on individual entries, so you can't tell if a 10-year window listed for a company was confirmed last month or five years ago. The employment tenure requirements (e.g. 'after 2 years') are sometimes missing or inconsistent, which matters a lot for the math.