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Re:Ask HN: How much equity should I ask for? by Xyik on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:47PM (#11130656)
You should definitely negotiate and consider your strike price as well. For Engineer #2 you should probably be getting at least 0.5%, especially if you have proven yourself. Make the argument that if the company were to exit for 10M in a couple years you would only net ~20K for about 3 years of work, which is less than a regular salary else where.

But why do you think your options would be worth nothing? That in itself is a problem.

Re:Ask HN: How much equity should I ask for? by 0xfd441b8e on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:50PM (#11130683)
We are going to need to raise a lot of money; we are developing our own hardware. I don't want to mention more than that because this is a high visibility story now and members of the company frequent HN.