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Their equity percentage may have gone down but the value of their equity probably went up.
by youeseh 8y ago
Their equity percentage may have gone down but the value of their equity probably went up.
- witcherchaos 8y agoOr looking at it another way, you can stress out for a company for 8 year (in case of segment), or or you can join the company as a c-level exec at year 6 for the same amount of equity
- youeseh 8y agoWouldn't getting to the point where you are a C-level at such a company be pretty stressful as well?
- seem_2211 8y agoThe sort of person who grows a company from Show HN -> Series D is a very different sort of person than the sort of person who can join as a C Level exec.
- nostrademons 8y agoThere's more overlap than I would've suspected - a lot of the Director/VP types that I saw Google hire from the outside (as opposed to promote from within) were folks who had previously founded a company, sometimes up to 4 companies.
- seem_2211 8y agoAgreed, but that's different again. Once you've done a job like be the CTO or CEO or an exec role at a high growth startup (like Segment) then getting into a role as an exec at a larger company.
- nostrademons 8y agoUsually the folks who join a (successful) company as a C-level exec at year 6 are those who previously stressed out for 10+ years, either as a founder or working their way up through multiple successful projects at a big company.