These are private companies right now. They don't have to make large stockholders known until the company files with the SEC to go public. McCurry jokes that he doesn't even remember how many options he's been promised, and he really doesn't know if they're worth anything. But there is a little more noble cause in this for me. Some startup CEOs say they don't want to play the game of the Battle of the Political Boards.
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