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Re:Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it by random28345 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @07:12PM (#8570591)
> And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would.

A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback.

Assembly doesn't address the same use-case as founding a company, and while it's ostensibly aimed at potential "founders", I doubt many people will conflate collaborating via Assembly and a creating a startup.

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