How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup

Re:How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup by mentat on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:01AM (#8496753)

> That's true, but the market prices that kind of risk, and the market cares a lot about substitutes, and the typical developer taking basis points for their participation is eminently replaceable by other developers.

If all you're hiring with your first employees are replaceable people, you're doing it wrong and will probably fail. Those people not only have to work long hours, they have to work them well. It's like the APM curve at the beginning of a RTS. You never make up those time and behind-ness just piles up.

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Re:How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup by tptacek on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:21AM (#8550852)

This is one of those things that sounds true but I think probably isn't. Business isn't an RTS, and most startups aren't really in an APM race.

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Re:How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup by shams93 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:19AM (#8497170)

With equity in the long run an engineering career looks a lot more like prison or slavery, you are taking all the risk and most often if there's a hiccup you have to live with not getting paid

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