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 webmaven on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:02PM (#17299684)

#2-#9 (roughly) are taking on more financial risk (this corresponds to the startup's market risk).

#50 is probably being hired for very specific skills and experience (to mitigate technical risk) that increases their opportunity cost considerably, and you aren't going to get an engineer with a track record of scaling operations like yours unless they get a decent salary and a shot at a significant upside.

For certain skillsets and track records, when a startup is having severe growing pains, it becomes a sellers' market.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by busterarm on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:51AM (#17300354)

The trick to this is find a company with large upside potential that is either about to IPO or has just recently IPO'd.

The list is small, but there are some obvious choices, even now.

Tangentially, I _really_ lucked out. I had other options that were lead engineer, or engineer #2-4, but this was unequivocally the best choice. The work is more interesting here too.

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