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Re:How to negotiate your salary package by mgraczyk on Sunday June 22, 2025 @03:34PM (#44349637)
The total number of lottery winners who have won, in total, an amount of say 50,000 USD is at least 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the number of people who have received that amount or more from startup equity

You are making an empirical claim that can be made rigorous, it's just off by several orders of magnitude

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Re:How to negotiate your salary package by reillyse on Sunday June 22, 2025 @03:45PM (#44349717)
But why are you not including all the people who have won.

Surely the calc is, the number of money gambled in startup equity versus the amount of money gambled in the lottery.

Do startups payout at .5 or above, I think not.

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Re:How to negotiate your salary package by lazide on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:38PM (#44350094)
Most startup gambling is on the form of time.
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