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ESOP

Short for employee share option plan, the name most often heard in conversation and in American documents. Solaris’s documents call it the Option Plan. Under it the board granted options over 4,800 shares to the staff, which could be exercised only on an exit. Appendix 4 · Chapter 12

Explained in Chapter 12, Employee Equity and the Option Plan, of Venture Deals.

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