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This is getting more off topic, but what made you confident in the startup that you were joining? You said you were the first employee, so there's a high amount
by ccdev 9y ago
This is getting more off topic, but what made you confident in the startup that you were joining? You said you were the first employee, so there's a high amount of unknown variables at that company's stage.
The median "startup scene" outcome for a typical person is to be 30 with 5 short-term jobs, zero net worth, and wondering if it's too late to get into a real stable career. Picking a startup that will "take off" and earns high valuation sounds like a time-costly numbers game at this point.
- toocool 9y agoDumb luck and sheer stupidity, I joined because the idea was cool, the founders were friends and I wasn't aware at that time how much big companies pay. It was my first startup experience, was working in a slow enterprise environment before and it seemed like a fresh breath of air. I would never, ever, do it again unless I was a cofounder, in which case the stake would make it more worthwhile. I would have looked at Google to begin with. But now that I got "lucky" (and I put it in quote because it's all on paper, all it takes is a little bump in the road and my equity gets washed away by unfavorable dilution terms, especially if I leave), I am in this conundrum of leaving vs staying.