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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by smallgovt on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:10PM (#19494505)
It sounds like your startup was unfortunately an outlier with respect to the level of dilution experienced. 99% dilution over 6 rounds is far from 'usual reality'. More common is 20% dilution per round.
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by vkou on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:27PM (#19495697)
It was also an outlier, in the sense that it had a valuable exit.

You've only got one lifetime to pull the equity slot machine, hoping that the reels come up all sixes.

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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by eanzenberg on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:16PM (#19494545)
6 rounds of 20% dilution will get you to 74% total dilution from the initial grant.
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by Zephyr314 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:30PM (#19494682)
Which in this case nets you >$1M [0] vs the 80k quoted above. This also assumes no retention grants over 6 rounds.

  [0]: 0.02*0.8^6*$200,000,000 = $1,048,576
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