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I am not saying it is false. I am just saying that the tax rate makes giving equity very unattractive, which doesn't help employee motivation.



Do you really have a problem of obtaining good devs? Seems to me you can get good personnel in a bargain price in NL. It's also super easy to bring people from outside the EU. That's the main reason I think software devs are so cheap in the EU.


He's not talking about hiring, but motivating people who were already hired.


By the way I think I read somewhere they wanna fix the employee options problems, you're totally right it's broken.




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