Basically you don’t want to be employee 1-10. Either be a co-founder, or join at a point you can paid a good salary. Those guys work as hard as the founders and

Basically you don’t want to be employee 1-10. Either be a co-founder, or join at a point you can paid a good salary. Those guys work as hard as the founders and take as much financial risk as the founders, but walk away with nothing. There are exceptions but this is 99% of cases.