What exactly are stock options?

1 · Abin Simon · May 20, 2020, midnight
So yeah, this is me trying to write a non technical blog. Not sure how this will end up. This is just an intro, very basics of what I wished I knew when I started off. I am not someone who really knows what I am talking about here, you have been warned. What are they? # Stock options are an agreement that the company that you work for gives you about its stocks. The agreement pretty much says that you can buy a certain amount of their stocks at a fixed price, which usually is the current stock p...