For battery space, the same factor of a few hundred still applies. Also I'm not sure where you looked up the volume of the Trump tower but wikipedia claims a floor area of 240,000 m^2 and I doubt people can walk in an area a foot tall. With a more realistic ceiling height of 3m, you'd be off by another factor of 10 there.
--> Closer to 1/1000 of land area for coverage and 100 trump towers for storage.
Your claim on it taking more energy to make a solar panel than it produces is likely untrue, but I don't have enough scientific background to quantitatively refute it. (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf claims a breakeven period of 2-4 years)
How one decides "empirical data", as well as "comparable companies" and "comparable candidate" are all subject to very broad interpretation.
For instance, GlassDoor has way lower salary numbers than AngelList. But they have their share of problems too -- while the numbers are empirical, they are often dated (and have no account of equity compensation)
It is in Silicon Valley. I haven't disclosed salary history.
I thought they may agree to 100k and 0.2%, and/or I could use that as leverage to ask for more salary instead.
I would be happy with 100k and 0.2%, 120k and 0%, or anything scaled in between.
I had already read that post.
i got a job offer with a highly reputable startup with ~30 employees and a 50m valuation.i am a software engineer with a top b.s., state school m.s., and two years of experience (in which i was very successful). i am currently unemployed; my last salary was 96k and i had 0.2% of a 40 employee / 20m valuation company.i was offered 100k and 0.07%. i thought the equity offered was very low, and...