Understanding Your Employee Stock Options Employee Stock Options and Other Equity Compensation

The focus of this video will be on how to navigate the complexities of employee stock options and look at the ways to get the most value from them. While your 401(k) and home can be valuable sources of wealth, your employee stock options could potentially be worth much more. As seen with companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon, employees can become millionaires.
Yet employee stock options can be extremely complicated and risky. Making a wrong decision on taxes, for example, can be costly and this video will help you navigate it.
What You Will Learn
The main types of options: nonqualified stock options and incentive stock options.
How to look at other equity compensation, like restricted stock and employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs).
How to evaluate the risks of employee stock options.
Who This Video is For
Employees, especially ones working in the tech world