Is equity just an excuse for start-ups to motivate lower salaries and bad work hours, which in the end don't yield much anyway? Pretty much. Unless you have y

Is equity just an excuse for start-ups to motivate lower salaries and bad work hours, which in the end don't yield much anyway? Pretty much. Unless you have your lawyer (not a lawyer, your lawyer) tell you otherwise assume equity as compensation is worthless. There are times and places where equity isn't meaningless, but that's not at Valley tech startups. There it's mostly used to mislead impressionable youths that haven't been burned yet.