I'd be willing to bet that if the founder of Slack wanted/needed to he could take quite a bit of money off the table. Come series B/C/D+ usually founders can ta

I'd be willing to bet that if the founder of Slack wanted/needed to he could take quite a bit of money off the table. Come series B/C/D+ usually founders can take a bit off the table. Stewart can probably do whatever he wants (though he made enough form Flickr he doesn't need to). As for me, I have not very much in savings, but I would take 30% ownership of Slack over 30% ownership of 37Signals/Basecamp in a _second_, and not even just from a long-term perspective. I'd bet with a 30% stake in Slack you could put a couple million away to hedge downside risk, then have tons and tons of upside available. I think HN could do a much better job at understanding the practicalities of equity and what it really looks like if you're a founder. You're not just handed a bunch of paper and told to work and dream for 10 years, generally speaking.