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The speaker says non-disparagement agreements are more commonly tied to positive compensation, such as a bonus, than to forfeiture of already-earned equity.

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“there are non-disparagement agreements in various tech industry like companies and stuff like it's not crazy to have a non-disparagement agreement upon leaving it's more normal to tie that agreement to some sort of like positive compensation where”
“like you get some bonus if you agree but whereas what open-ended was unusual because it was like yanking your equity if you don't but like non-disparagement agreements are actually somewhat common and like”
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