Comment by pinopinopino
6 years ago
I feel the comments in the threads are a bit too sour. Sure, you probably will not make 200 million dollars or even 20 million dollars. I am going to make that a bit stronger: It is highly likely you will end up broke as fuck. But so what? Starting something up is really fun and if you are young (20 something) and don't have many obligations yet, just go for it. It doesn't matter if you fail. You will learn a broad skill set, which will be useful in the rest of your life. It will build character. Even if you fail, it is not a worthless experience.
Not everyone has the luxury of failing. Everyone’s cost-benefit analysis is different, and one takeaway from this discussion is that founders need to stop skewing the cost by depreciating the shares non-founder early stage employees get.