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Sure. That's outside the realms of a discussion of whether equity is reasonable compensation for a lowered salary, though - "not working for bigcorp" is a sepa
by regularfry 9y ago
Sure. That's outside the realms of a discussion of whether equity is reasonable compensation for a lowered salary, though - "not working for bigcorp" is a separate part of the compensation package.
I'm not saying that anyone's wrong for choosing to work for a startup. I'm just saying that it might not be rational. We're human, so that's fine. We're allowed to have non-economic value systems. But anyone walking into a job where options are part of the compensation ought to understand how the company views what it is offering.
- dwaltrip 9y agoI think it's misguided to label non-economic factors as irrelevant to a rational consideration. Humans aren't economic robots. Money is an abstraction, a very important one, but not all-encompassing. Perhaps your comment came with an implied "assuming no preference in firm size". That's fine, but a large number of people don't fall into that category, and so they will need to rationally modify the analysis.