{"id":20434,"date":"2020-01-20T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/?p=20434"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:48:28","slug":"employees-stock-options-european-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Stock Options are What European Startups Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span 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class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#In_contrast_to_Silicon_Valley_European_startup_employees_are_not_known_for_earning_millions_from_the_companys_stock_Stock_options_policies_in_Europe_are_a_major_barrier_to_the_tech_growth_and_that_has_to_be_changed\" >In contrast to Silicon Valley,\u00a0 European startup employees are not known for earning millions from the company&#8217;s stock. \nStock options policies in Europe are a major barrier to the tech growth and that has to be changed.\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#Being_competitive\" >Being competitive<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#Do_employees_want_stock_options_instead_of_cash\" >Do employees want stock options instead of cash?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#Understanding_employee_stock_options\" >Understanding employee stock options\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#How_do_they_work\" >How do they work<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/employees-stock-options-european-startups\/#How_to_exercise\" >How to exercise<\/a><ul 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https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stock-options-t-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stock-options-t-1-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stock-options-t-1-370x241.jpg 370w, https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stock-options-t-1-760x496.jpg 760w, https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/stock-options-t-1-424x277.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>In contrast to Silicon Valley,\u00a0 European startup employees are not known for earning millions from the company&#8217;s stock.<br \/>\nStock options policies in Europe are a major barrier to the tech growth and that has to be changed.\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employees stock options are issued by many companies. For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/where-to-look-for-startup-funding\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">startups<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> use them to hire talented they need because they cannot afford to pay them more in cash.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The situation is especially difficult in Europe where the policy doesn&#8217;t give a chance for companies to issue employees stock options. That causes problems for many companies but for the startups, it is maybe the biggest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the campaign\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/notoptional.eu\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not Optional<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published a letter where stated:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Without delay, we call on legislators to fix the patchy, inconsistent and often punitive rules that govern employee ownership\u2009\u2014\u2009the practice of giving staff options to acquire a slice of the company they\u2019re working for.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some European countries started to relax rules on employee stock options. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France is one of them, but employees still favor cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This country recently exposes a list of changes to rules on employee stock options to meet a request from French startups. Their aim is to compete with US competitors and big companies in recruiting staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France is changing a set of rules, for example, the price at which the companies ( including foreign companies) can offer them to employees. The goal is to make France one of the most friendly areas for startups in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Being_competitive\"><\/span><b>Being competitive<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Difficulties in implementation employee stock option rules and availability of capital, are reasons why European have problems to create large <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/the-most-valuable-ai-startups-in-europe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tech businesses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That&#8217;s the reason for staying behind the US but the EU wants to keep up. There is a strong campaign for changes in employee stock options in Europe now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Not Optional, a campaign is supported by 500 European founders and they are lobbying new stock options policy across the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They recognize employee stock options policy as a major drawback to European tech growth. Due to the problems with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/find-investors-for-startups\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fund-raising<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, issuing employee stock options can be a great opportunity. Well, recently many countries declared changes, France isn&#8217;t the only one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ireland changed some of its stock option practices, also, the new Finnish government is examining changes on how stock options are taxed. The German Startups Association has started a campaign to lobby for changes too. As a confirmation that employee stock options are on the Brussels agenda &#8211; Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, discussed stock options in Commission hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_employees_want_stock_options_instead_of_cash\"><\/span><b>Do employees want stock options instead of cash?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many European tech employees are, however, at best doubtful about stock options, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sifted.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sifted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The employees don&#8217;t have positive responses. Maybe it&#8217;s surprising how they have a lack of trust but someone has to educate them, to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/2019\/03\/trading-options\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explain the benefits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of having the company&#8217;s stock. For that to do isn&#8217;t enough just yelling that \u201cwe are all shareholders of the company\u201d. It isn&#8217;t complicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, let&#8217;s start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Understanding_employee_stock_options\"><\/span><b>Understanding employee stock options<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s see how the employee stock options work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies give stock options through a contract that provides employees the right to buy a set number of shares of the company stock at a pre-set price.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to buy is commonly called exercise, and a pre-set price is the grant price.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is one important characteristic connected to employee stock options &#8211; time, the offers don&#8217;t last forever. Employees have a strict period to exercise the stock options before the date of expiration. Also, the employer could require that an employee must exercise the options within a defined period after leaving the company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of options that the company could give to its employees is different from company to company. Also, not all employees will get the same number of stock options. It depends on status, rank, seniority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_do_they_work\"><\/span><b>How do they work<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, you got a new job at a new firm. Besides your salary, you will receive stock options, as part of the payments. Let&#8217;s say you will receive stock options for 10.000 shares of your new company&#8217;s stock. You and the company are both obliged to sign the contract that describes the terms of the stock options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will define the grant date. That is the date your options are available for you to buy. This means your stock options begin to vest. But you will not get all of your stock options immediately when you start working for a company. The options vest gradually. That period is known as the vesting period and it can last several years, for example. So, let&#8217;s say the vesting period is 5 years. This means it will take 5 years before you have the right to buy all 10.000 shares. But you\u2019ll have access to some of your stock options before those 5 years are up. 1\/5 of your options will likely vest each year over that 5-year vesting period. So, after 3 years of employment, for example, you will have the right to exercise 6.000 options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But your contract may contain one important part &#8211; a milestone. The clause that you have to stay for at least one year with the company to have a chance to get any of your stock options. When you reach the first milestone you will receive your first 1\/5 of your stock options. After that, it is possible to get every month some amount of them, usually, they are the same. For example, the rest of the 8.000 shares you&#8217;ll obtain in 48 parts each month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if you leave the company before reaching the milestone for the first year, you won\u2019t get any options.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_exercise\"><\/span><b>How to exercise<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After your stock options vest once, you can exercise them. What does it mean? You can buy them. Until you do that, the options don&#8217;t have any value. The price of your stock options is part of the contract mentioned above. That is a so-called strike price or grant price or exercise price. This price never depends on how the company is doing. It will always stay the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, after your 5-years vesting period, you have 10.000 stock options with a strike price of $2. If you want to exercise (buy) all of your options you&#8217;ll have to pay $20.000. When you buy all your stock options you are the owner and you can do with them whatever you want. You can sell them, keep them (only if you think the price will go up) but remember, you have to pay fees, taxes, and commissions when you are buying or selling the options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are some ways to exercise your stock options without spending cash. For example, you can make a buy-and-sell action. To do this, you&#8217;ll buy your options and quickly sell them through a brokerage. Another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strategy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the exercise-and-sell-to-cover transaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practically, you have to sell enough shares to cover your buying of all shares and keep the rest. But be aware, your stock options have an expiration date. So, read the contract carefully. Usually, options expire 10 years from the grant date. After that date, they are useless if you don\u2019t exercise them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bottom_line\"><\/span><b>Bottom line<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is good to exercise options when the price is lower than the same stock on the market. For example, your stock options&#8217; strike price is $2 but the same stock is traded at $4 on the market. Just sell them and make a profit.\u00a0 It is obvious, if you have some clue or expectation that your company&#8217;s stock price will grow, you can hold them as long as you want and sell them at the most favorable moment. It isn&#8217;t forbidden to sell them on the market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you should wait if the price of your company&#8217;s stock is lower than your exercise price. In such a case, don&#8217;t exercise them because you might lose your money. Just wait for the price to increase before exercising.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to Silicon Valley,\u00a0 European startup employees are not known for earning millions from the company&#8217;s stock. Stock options policies in Europe are a major barrier to the tech growth and that has to be changed.\u00a0 Employees stock options are issued by many companies. 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