Ask about buying shares now, before any IPO. That doesn't cost them anything and it shows you have faith in the company (or that you like to gamble). Buy as many shares as you can. Borrow money if you have to.
Ask about buying "directed shares" when the company goes public. These also don't cost the company a thing, but it's a nice way for them to throw you a bone. The downside is that you won't have the shares in hand until the IPO, so you run the risk that they change their mind at the last second. Buying directed shares, and selling them as soon as the lockout period ended, allowed me to put a down payment on my first house. I did have to risk $5k of my own money, though.
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Ask about buying shares now, before any IPO. That doesn't cost them anything and it shows you have faith in the company (or that you like to gamble). Buy as many shares as you can. Borrow money if you have to.
Ask about buying "directed shares" when the company goes public. These also don't cost the company a thing, but it's a nice way for them to throw you a bone. The downside is that you won't have the shares in hand until the IPO, so you run the risk that they change their mind at the last second. Buying directed shares, and selling them as soon as the lockout period ended, allowed me to put a down payment on my first house. I did have to risk $5k of my own money, though.
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", by Edward Tufte.
The Whitney Museum of Art recently had a well-received display of digital art.