this is the dark side of startups that no one talks about airtable just agreed to be acquired for $1.285B, but some employees who were granted options will never see a dollar from their equity the Silicon Valley promise to employees: you work hard and earn equity in the company… and one day that equity could be life changing at one point airtable was valued at $11.7B — and every option granted around then got priced against that number when the company sold, that price was the problem. the…