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Bargaining Inequality: Employee Golden Handcuffs And Asymmetric Information, Anat Alon-Beck
Bargaining Inequality: Employee Golden Handcuffs And Asymmetric Information, Anat Alon-Beck
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Inaccurate unicorn firm valuation is a well-documented problem in the finance literature. Employees of these large, privately held companies do not have access to fair market valuation or financial statements and, in many cases, are denied access to such reports, even when requested. Unicorn employees are granted equity as a substantial part of their compensation, however due to the inferior position of employees in comparison to the start-up founders and other investors, information shedding light on the value of their equity grants has been withheld, as apparent in recent practices.
Start-up founders, investors, and their lawyers have systematically abused equity …