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Re:The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup ... by _random_ on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:54PM (#7615065)
No word on equity distribution though. You can call me the least important junior assistant developer as long as I get my 5-10% :).
Re:The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup ... by tomasien on Saturday April 19, 2014 @07:03PM (#7615097)
Whoa, 5-10%? In what scenario?
Re:The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup ... by 3825 on Saturday April 19, 2014 @08:27PM (#7615293)
5% does seem a little high. I think Sam Altman called for a minimum of 10% (so the allocation is equal to x such that x us equal to or greater than 0.10) to go to the first ten hires. Perhaps, this would be a scenario where the first hire would get half of the allocation (so the allocation to the first employee is equal to x such that x is equal to or greater than 0.05).

However, I'd argue the first hire isn't "the least important junior assistant developer" no matter what label you put on them. Other than a first (or maybe second but that's stretching it) hire, I fail to see where someone would get five to ten percent.