Musk says he is paid in what are known as stock options instead of money.

马斯克表示，他拿的薪水不是现，而是股票期权。

In contrast, options and equities can be traded on any exchange.

相反，期权和股票可以在任何交易所自由交易。

The circular stressed diverse financing channels including credit, bonds and stock options.

通知强调了信贷、债券、股票期权等多种融资渠道。

Listings these days mostly happen to enable early investors and employees with stock options to cash out.

如今的上市大多是为了让早期投资者和拥有股票期权的员工能够套现。

This meant that thanks to employee stock options, these mid-2000s tech bros were making good money.

这意味着，由于员工股票期权，这些2000年代中期的科技兄弟赚了很多钱。

You can be denied a reference or unnecessarily complicate the paperwork related to your stock options and pension plan.

公司可能会拒绝给你写推荐信，或者无缘无故让你的股票期权和养划的相关文书工作变得复杂。

The salary, in fact, was actually half of what he was currently earning but there were health benefits and stock options.

事实上，他的薪酬只有原来公司的一半但有医疗福利和股票期权。

Jeff Bezos gave stock options to all of his original employees, and this made them very motivated to make the company succeed.

杰夫·贝佐斯给他所有的原始员工提供股票期权，这让他们非常有动力让公司取得成功。

Their first move was to buy call options on Volkswagen stock.

他们的第一步是购买大众汽车股票的看涨期权。

They gave me a bunch of stock and stock options.

他们给我一堆股票和股票期权。

Of course, yes, I had stock options and I had a nice career.

当然，是的，我拥有股票期权，并且拥有一份令艳羡的职业。

That is treated as a stock option.

这被视为股票期权。

So think a stock option that an employee holds, it's already vested.

想象一下，员工持有的股票期权已经归属。

So RSUs versus options, a public company versus a private company, vesting periods versus cliffs.

那么，限制性股票单位（RSUs）与股票期权，上市公司与私营公司，授予期与悬崖期，这些选择该如何权衡呢？

This means they're simply acquiring through stock options.

这意味着他们只是通过股票期权来获取。

But he was not at a high enough level to be cut in on the stock options that were awarded before the IPO.

但是他的级别不够髙，无法获得IPO之前奖励给员工的股票期权。

Stock option backdating... ...Under IRC section 409A...

股票期权回溯。但根据国内税收法第409A条规定。

Employees often received a significant portion of their compensation in stock options.

员工通常将其薪酬的一部分以股票期权的形式给予。

Especially in businesses where a portion of employee compensation is paid out in company stock options.

特别是在员工部分薪酬以公司股票期权形式发放的企业中。

And the one and only Elon Musk was awarded more than $10 billion in Tesla options.

而唯一的埃隆·马斯克获得了超过100亿美元的特斯拉股票期权。