How much equity should I get as a first engineer?

Re:How much equity should I get as a first engineer? by tlb on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:35PM (#20631800)

It irritates me when business guys try to give technical people the shaft like this.

If you're building the first version of the product and plan to grow into the role of CTO as the company grows, you should be an equal cofounder with 15 - 50% equity.

Read this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...

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Re:How much equity should I get as a first engineer? by jinjiaho on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:56AM (#20632509)

Great article, thanks! :)

His argument is that he put in the money in the first 1.5 years whereas I drew salary. To what extent should that affect the equity split?

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Re:How much equity should I get as a first engineer? by tlb on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:25AM (#20634451)

If he were an angel investor putting money in, he might get between 5 to 15% of the company. That’s a reasonable amount of extra equity to take.

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Re:How much equity should I get as a first engineer? by jinjiaho on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:41PM (#20641349)

Thanks!

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