To be honest, I don't think startup employees (and by startups I don't mean Dropbox, I mean companies who have to count the cash they spend) are low paid. Obvio

To be honest, I don't think startup employees (and by startups I don't mean Dropbox, I mean companies who have to count the cash they spend) are low paid. Obviously a startup can't pay like a company with tons of cash can. In tech and everywhere else. I like working at small companies because you get to do more things, because of the atmosphere, small team, agility, lack of bureaucracy, etc. Where I do think startup employees are getting absolutely screwed, specially in the US, is in the working hours. As an employee, you don't have founder shares. You should just be able to work your 9-5 hours and call it a day. If the founders think there's more work to be done, they can either prioritize better, hire more people, do it themselves, or just accept that not everything they want to do can be done with the resources they have. Period.