"I've always been baffled that asking these questions are not incredibly obvious to anyone." Most of the people joining these companies, especially early on, a

"I've always been baffled that asking these questions are not incredibly obvious to anyone." Most of the people joining these companies, especially early on, are young people straight out of school. When would they ever have had exposure to it, or to any situation which would indicate these kinds of questions are appropriate to ask? Perhaps in college/high school, we need some kind of "startup economics" course, or at least a lesson on it in a personal finance course. This, and so many other things about the working world. Cause it's so easy to say, "Why didn't you ask about this before you took the job?" But most people have no idea that they can ask about "it", let alone what "it" is.