The MANATee Monitor

Curated news & tips for employees of stealth monopolies like the “Magnificent 7”

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Financial Fitness Test

Take TechView's free Financial Fitness Test, built for tech employees. Assess your RSUs, equity comp, and savings to see where you stand in minutes.

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Will Hammond Will Hammond

Getting the Most from Your Microsoft RSUs

If you're a Microsoft employee with RSUs, this analysis could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars. We walked through four distinct strategies for handling your RSUs and measured how each one would have performed over a ten-year period — using real market data and actual tax rates. The results are striking.

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Will Hammond Will Hammond

The Microsoft Mega Backdoor Roth Explained

There is a retirement strategy available to Microsoft employees that could save hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over a career — and most people either don't know it exists, or aren't using it correctly. It's called the Mega Backdoor Roth, and once you understand it, you'll wonder why your company's onboarding materials didn't lead with it.

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Will Hammond Will Hammond

How to Get the Most From Your Nvidia RSUs

If you're an Nvidia employee sitting on RSUs, the decisions you make about those shares could be worth hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of dollars over the course of your career. Most tech professionals earn exceptional compensation, yet many still fall short of their financial potential. The reason is almost never talent. It's strategy.

Below, we walk through four distinct approaches to managing Nvidia RSUs and show exactly how each one performed over a ten-year period using real market and tax data. The results are striking.

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