Being a startup employee is a burnout generally, for the most part most startups will fail so you're getting extreme hard work plus generally undermarket pay an

Being a startup employee is a burnout generally, for the most part most startups will fail so you're getting extreme hard work plus generally undermarket pay and possibly no benefits at all. As an employee for an establiished company you get nights and weekends off to ironically have time to bootstrap your own products and start having extra income streams. In a startup even if it succeeds your equity won't really be on par with what you can earn with your own bootstrapped product even if it takes years to find the right idea.