Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by evancharles on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:51AM (#17291230)

Interestingly YC has encouraged startups to offer more equity to early employees and I'm not sure it's had an effect. See pg's recommendation in http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by acconrad on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:21AM (#17294105)

I vaguely remember reading that article while I was at said company making basically the same salary (with the same company valuation at the time) and realizing my equity was far below that and scratching my head.

If I had PG's recommended equity instead of what I had I would have gone from neutral EV to basically pay-off-my-house money. Like I said, it's things like these that make me never want to work for a startup again and only come in as a founder.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by rhizome on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:05PM (#17296786)

If it had an effect, it would be apparent after 11 years.

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