Mostly for @habryka’s sake: it sounds like you are likely describing your unvested equity, or possibly equity that gets clawed back on quitting. Neither of which is (usually) tied to signing an NDA on the way out the door—they’d both be lost simply due to quitting.
The usual arrangement is some extra severance payment tied to signing something on your way out the door, and that’s usually way less than the unvested equity.
My current best guess is that actually cashing out the vested equity is tied to an NDA, but I am really not confident. OpenAI has a bunch of really weird equity arrangements.
Mostly for @habryka’s sake: it sounds like you are likely describing your unvested equity, or possibly equity that gets clawed back on quitting. Neither of which is (usually) tied to signing an NDA on the way out the door—they’d both be lost simply due to quitting.
The usual arrangement is some extra severance payment tied to signing something on your way out the door, and that’s usually way less than the unvested equity.
EDIT: Turns out OpenAI’s equity terms are unusually brutal and it is indeed the case that the equity clawback was tied to signing the NDA.
My current best guess is that actually cashing out the vested equity is tied to an NDA, but I am really not confident. OpenAI has a bunch of really weird equity arrangements.