Funding and ownership
Ordinary shares
The standard type of share, carrying normal voting rights and a share of profits and sale proceeds after anyone with preferential rights has been paid. Founders and staff usually hold ordinary shares or options over them. Americans call them common stock.
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Your options convert into ordinary shares.
Also called Common stock.
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