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Re:The Engineer Crunch by tptacek on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @02:43PM (#7260556)
Another way I could say the same thing that sidesteps your argument is that the more generous you are with equity grants, the more ruthless you need to be about firing.
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Re:The Engineer Crunch by freyrs3 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:23PM (#7260782)
So then why take options at all? Statistically and economically there's little incentive to at that point, especially if management is going to create this toxic ruthless "fire fast" environment.
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Re:The Engineer Crunch by tptacek on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:27PM (#7260808)
The fact that employees and company principles value startup equity very differently is another reason why some companies are stingy about granting equity.
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