{"id":787,"date":"2008-08-05T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-08-05T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:29:37","slug":"handling-of-share-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/handling-of-share-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling of Share Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this piece of news on how a lot of employees in high valued private companies such as Facebook are getting a little impatient that their shares in the company aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t available in the open public market yet as many of them simply want to sell it.  As a result, many people are simply trying to find potential buyers of their own in the meantime to try and sell them now.<\/p>\n<p>Seems kind of pre-mature to me as in my opinion if you opt to get shares in a company, especially a private one that has an intent to go public, then you should be in it for the long hall.  I find it kind of amazing when I see people go on these employee share programs for example only to see them say sell it 2 months later which earned them say a $30 net profit.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost like the person is treating it like a holiday bonus and in my view it should be more of an investment.  Like some say, good things comes to those who wait.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this piece of news on how a lot of employees in high valued private companies such as Facebook are getting a little impatient that their shares in the company aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t available in the open public market yet as many of them simply want to sell it. As a result, many people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1118,1117,1119],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-company-shares","tag-employee-benefits","tag-selling-shares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-cH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}