What if I had
joined that company?
I received recruiting emails about these companies. The calculator shows how their growth would have changed the value of a hypothetical pay package.
I’ve left out pay figures from the emails. Many messages omitted them, I haven’t asked permission to share the figures I received, and pay is negotiable.
Enter annual cash and annualized equity below to see how a hypothetical package at outreach would be valued using each company’s latest recorded share price or valuation. The same starting amounts apply to every company. Cash stays fixed; only equity changes.
LEADERBOARD
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Growth snapshot 2026-10-18
USD · equity values include growth and dilution
Public stock prices are from the October 2026 snapshot, not live quotes. Closing prices are from October 16, 2026. Private valuations may be older; each row shows its date.
COMPANY STATUS
What happened to the companies?
6 of 239 (2.5%) have a reviewed shutdown or liquidation record.
Acquisitions are counted separately. These statuses do not establish what employee equity paid out.
- 3615.1%
- 15263.6%
- 4016.7%
- 62.5%
- 41.7%
- 10.4%
The 239 companies named on this site; withheld companies are excluded. Status reflects the latest recorded research, not status at outreach. Each company counts once. This chart uses the full cohort and does not change with leaderboard filters or pay inputs.
OUTREACH → LATEST STATUS
What changed since the first outreach?
14 private → public
Starting status is known for 47 of 239 companies. The diagram includes unknown starting statuses.
View transition counts
239 companies shown; each company counts once.
Public dates use the whole first outreach quarter, through the snapshot date. A change inside that quarter stays unknown. Withheld companies are excluded. First eligible outreach per company; later campaigns and compensation rankings do not change the starting point. Selecting a transition shows first-outreach paths in the table. Unknown history is not assumed private. These are endpoints, so an intermediate IPO, acquisition or other event may not appear. “Latest” means the recorded research, not a live company-status feed.
Choose the starting package
Your inputs set the package at outreach for every company. Cash stays fixed; equity is revalued.
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239 companies · best available outreach quarter per company
Growth per year: 4× in 2 years is +100% / yr; 4× in 8 years is +18.9% / yr. Rates use the source dates, which may start before outreach or end before today.
Swipe the table sideways to compare package and growth figures.
Package values assume the original equity is held to the date shown. They are paper values, not current pay or cash received. Read the method ↗
Limitations
- Different time periods. Outreach spans 2011–2026. Results cover different holding periods. Starting dates use the outreach quarter; the latest recorded price or valuation may be old. Check each row’s dates. Growth per year accounts for the length of the recorded period.
- No inflation adjustment. Dollar values are nominal USD. The same starting package is used across years, even though its purchasing power would differ. Taxes, dividends and option exercise costs are also excluded.
- Holding the equity. The model assumes I kept the original grant through the comparison date. I might have left before vesting, sold earlier, or been unable to keep the equity that long. Vesting and sale restrictions are not modeled.
- No career progression. Salary stays fixed. There are no raises, promotions, bonuses, new equity grants, job changes or layoffs. Package / yr is the original package revalued, not what I would be earning now or total earnings over the period.
- Paper equity value. A private company’s valuation does not establish what employee shares could sell for. Share classes and liquidation preferences are not modeled. Private-round dilution is not estimated; set it with the dilution input. For public stocks, that input adds a reduction beyond the share-price change.
- Incomplete history. This is my saved recruiting history, not a representative sample of the job market. Missing messages and company data affect the ranking. Outreach does not mean I had an offer or could have joined on these terms. The default ranking uses each company’s best quarter for the selected metric; transition filters use its first outreach quarter.
Email text and recruiter details are removed. 303 campaigns count toward the archive total but are excluded from the leaderboard because their company names are sensitive, unclear or still need review.