# @ruffinmitchener on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIIO2Oqp52i
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63332175-ruffinmitchener-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-07T02:31:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ruffin Mitchener (@ruffinmitchener) — https://gondola.cc/ruffinmitchener

## Caption

Stock options are a type of compensation that companies (especially startups) give employees. 

Instead of just giving you a salary and bonus, they also give you the option (aka the right) to buy a certain number of shares of the company at a set price — called the exercise price — sometime in the future.

You usually can’t buy them all at once. You “earn” them over time through something called vesting (for example, 25% after one year, then monthly after that).

So basically, stock options = a bet that the company will grow and be worth a lot more later. If it does, you get to buy cheap and sell high.

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