Sure, don't offer a poor equity package - but a startup cannot guarantee that their options will ever be worth much, while those FANG RSUs are basically cash. U

Sure, don't offer a poor equity package - but a startup cannot guarantee that their options will ever be worth much, while those FANG RSUs are basically cash. Unless you’re a founder, equity is a scarce resource which needs to be used to make good hires over a large number of years - it’s a zero-sum game. Offer too much equity to early hires and you’ll have a hard time attracting late hires - which may ultimately harm the engineering capability of your company when growth starts happening.