Comment by jeff18
9 years ago
Not sure if you read this essay, but Sam advocates for startups to be significantly more generous on employee equity: https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
(at least compared to other VCs, you may still disagree with his absolute numbers)
He could actually implement these ideas if he was serious.
YC is a competitive accelerator that gives you a small seed investment in exchange for a few things, but mostly for the expert advice. On this topic, the advice to companies is to be generous with equity. What else should be done?