The Silicon Valley effect Blame it on the Internet.
Stock options are larger, and they have a shorter life span.
People are jumping around for deals that will cash in quicker. That's what it's come to. Before being recruited in 1995 by Open Market, a maker of Internet software in Burlington, Mass., Eichhorn was a general manager for Hewlett-Packard in the Boston area. Better than cash, Eichhorn got a chance to run a small, agile business and to keep his family in New England. I thought it would be a tremendous learning experience, and it has been.