Ok but what if someone with talent and experience will deliver you value worth three times "startup pay" but only wants twice it. I'm sure you would have no arg

Ok but what if someone with talent and experience will deliver you value worth three times "startup pay" but only wants twice it. I'm sure you would have no argument about hiring them as the economics speak for themselves. So hiring people based on whether they will accept exactly 1 x startup pay is a limiting tactic unless you believe that its not possible that talent and experience will actually deliver that much extra value to you - in which case there is no argument.