Comment by neilv

> (P.S. You probably don’t want to be first employee for a startup. Be the last co-founder instead.)

Not only for the better equity deal. In an early startup of a handful of people, there's already a power hierarchy and people are still figuring things out.

If a cofounder wants to pull a key decision out of their posterior which they know everyone else would disagree with, or wants a big career-building or fun startup thing to themselves, they still need informed consent of the other cofounders.

This is a time when it might be very convenient for a cofounder to modify their idea of mostly-egalitarian startup team dynamics, to think of employees as, well, only employees. You being cofounder here helps keep everyone honest with themselves and the rest of the company, which can be good for everyone.