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Some companies are doing that, like https://vested.co/.

Pre-IPO stock is about as secure as super glue based on toothpicks and bubblegum.

That’s absolutely a thing, I know people who did it. However “security” can be expensive, they might demand some of the upside as well.

That's literally what the Bolt CEO did. He ran a company that offered his employees the loans.