Comment by carlosjobim
2 days ago
You took a gamble on a lower salary with the expectation that it would be compensated by your company stock going up in value.
I told you that there is no such guarantee, the only thing guaranteed is the salary you agree on. Everything else is speculative = gambling. Which is your decision, but don't cry later that you got scammed and that VC are cancer and so on.
But there's no reason for me to teach you, because you already learned it the hard way.
> You took a gamble on a lower salary with the expectation that it would be compensated by your company stock going up in value.
I did not. I joined a startup as a young graduate without thinking about what stocks meant at all.
> Which is your decision, but don't cry later
My decision was "let's join an exciting startup, probably those stocks won't ever have any value". I don't even care about the fact that I did not get more than I did: I never counted or even hoped for it.
But what wasn't clear to me back then was that I was being abused by the founders.