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This is exactly right. If a company offers you shares or options as pay for your work, they're asking you to be both an employee and an investor. If the company
by OliverJones 10y ago
This is exactly right. If a company offers you shares or options as pay for your work, they're asking you to be both an employee and an investor. If the company's executives become skittish or sullen when you ask questions any sane investor would ask ("what's my upside?"), that's a red flag. Be careful.
- elastic_church 10y ago> If the company's executives become skittish or sullen when you ask questions any sane investor would ask Kind of weird because they all do, and engineers are pretty inept at anything finance.