Comment by khazhoux
6 years ago
Like Garry, I wholeheartedly encourage every engineer to work at a startup for .00x% equity (unless you're employee #1, and you can ask for a whopping 1%). The founders and VCs will have hundreds or thousands times more upside than you (and they'll have preferential shares, etc), but at least you'll be In This Together (in that you're working "together" to try to help the founders+VCs join the Billionaire class -- a noble effort indeed!).
A friend of mine who's helping a VC firm has told me for the right talent they are doing better these days. Like 10% equity for founding engineer + 200k salary. With those numbers I can totally consider a startup job.