How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

Re:How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) by rdl on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @05:03PM (#4414766)

Yes, if the founders of a company, who have the best visibility into the company, don't value their equity, it's a waving red flag on fire. Either they are idiots (inexperienced at best, incompetent more likely), or company = doomed.

Obviously offering tptacek 5% in a company isn't bad, but offering an office admin 5% is.

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Re:How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) by tptacek on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @05:18PM (#4414832)

This person isn't an office admin. I don't know where that notion is coming from (elsewhere on the thread, I assume), but it's a little disturbing.

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Re:How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) by bmm6o on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @06:58PM (#4415227)

I didn't read the comment as referring to the author as an admin, it was just offering a lowly position stand-in in the current hypothetical.

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Re:How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) by rdl on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:36PM (#4415523)

Yeah, that was that I intended -- a general example. Given her previous salary of $116k+, she was obviously in some kind of professional/technical IC or low level manager role before.

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