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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by ping_pong on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:55PM (#24201066)
It's a lot of fun until the company gets acquired and you get $80k for your 4 years of hard work, and the founders get $50M.

Source: happened to me with a YC startup.

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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by GFischer on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:58PM (#24225472)
80k is a lot of money, but this must suck, especially if you feel like you were an integral part of the company's succcess - some German researchers found that compensation perception is more on "fairness" than the actual numbers, if you'd made 80k and the founders 200k, maybe you'd have been OK with it.
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Re:If founders treated their investors the same way they tre... by Peaches4Rent on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:52AM (#24233248)
I know research is good, but you really don't need research to figure that out. You don't want to feel screwed over
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