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#2-#9 (roughly) are taking on more financial risk (this corresponds to the startup's market risk). #50 is probably being hired for very specific skills and exp
by webmaven 8y ago
#2-#9 (roughly) are taking on more financial risk (this corresponds to the startup's market risk).
#50 is probably being hired for very specific skills and experience (to mitigate technical risk) that increases their opportunity cost considerably, and you aren't going to get an engineer with a track record of scaling operations like yours unless they get a decent salary and a shot at a significant upside.
For certain skillsets and track records, when a startup is having severe growing pains, it becomes a sellers' market.
- busterarm 8y agoThe trick to this is find a company with large upside potential that is either about to IPO or has just recently IPO'd. The list is small, but there are some obvious choices, even now. Tangentially, I _really_ lucked out. I had other options that were lead engineer, or engineer #2-4, but this was unequivocally the best choice. The work is more interesting here too.