Ask HN: CTO equity for a company in its seed round

Re:Ask HN: CTO equity for a company in its seed round by madhorse on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:47AM (#17144477)

Thanks for your answer

I’m not too scared about the family part, I came in acutely aware that it could be an issue but after working with them it seems to be a non problem.

The part I’m most confused about is the equity, it doesn’t seem to be a standard way of doing things in the startup world.

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Re:Ask HN: CTO equity for a company in its seed round by davismwfl on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:49PM (#17164441)

The equity isn't standard and it is odd. Only you can make this call. But if nothing else it seems odd.

One point, 98% of all business are not managed or dealt with as a startup like SV would. I have been apart of a lot of businesses outside of SV and so many were not structured as you'd expect based on reading tech blogs etc, but a few were super lucrative for me. SV is an echo chamber, don't use it as your only source of reality as it is really an isolated odd case of reality.

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