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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by j1o1h1n on Sunday April 12, 2015 @01:38AM (#9362283)
Less "flexible" with salary and benefits, presumably.
Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by jmspring on Sunday April 12, 2015 @02:21AM (#9362362)
I've known people with nest eggs happy to take cuts for something interesting.

But I also know with experience comes a skeptical eye for being asked to carry extra load for less upside (yet same or more risk).

A story from some time back told to me. Founders had a UI, an algorithm, and an idea. It had merit. They sought someone out to build and run the actual service. The funding was angel, the role was senior to C-level, but the salary offered was 40-60k cut for a senior engineer at the usual suspects, equity capped at 4% assuming a trade off in salary.

Risk and reward to build out infrastructure and productize someone's idea? I could certainly get a couple of people to build it out in a "get us to a-round funding" in those guidelines, maybe even beyond. But as expectations on a non-founding senior/early member, one would assume way too much risk for the potential upside.

It isn't non-technical founder seeking technical co-founder waters, but damn close.