Couldn't agree more. It's the same for business / marketing / sales folks too. This incentivizes people to be founders, because first employees get a terrible

Couldn't agree more. It's the same for business / marketing / sales folks too. This incentivizes people to be founders, because first employees get a terrible deal (comparatively). It's odd that we reward people that "simply started the company" to such a great extent. Especially since "starting a company" is not the difficult part.