> Hours and days don’t capture the value. I have risked my house, every minute of spare time, I have put Heroku bills on my personal credit card, paid contracto

> Hours and days don’t capture the value. I have risked my house, every minute of spare time, I have put Heroku bills on my personal credit card, paid contractors out of my pocket and had to create something out of nothing within a difficult market vertical. Comparing that to a “long day at the office” doesn’t even compute. First of all, kudos to you for being so dedicated and courageous. Most startup founders that I know aren't like you at all. Often they have seed funding very early. Not only do they pay nothing out of pocket, but typically they can draw a modest salary pretty early on. The other thing is that nobody is claiming you shouldn't get more equity, that is fair. My argument is against ridiculous assessments that "founders always work x100 harder than any employee". Most founders I've seen weren't like you, and I've seen early employees working harder than founders in some cases.