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It's a lot of fun until the company gets acquired and you get $80k for your 4 years of hard work, and the founders get $50M. Source: happened to me with a YC s
by ping_pong 6y ago
It's a lot of fun until the company gets acquired and you get $80k for your 4 years of hard work, and the founders get $50M.
Source: happened to me with a YC startup.
- GFischer 6y ago80k is a lot of money, but this must suck, especially if you feel like you were an integral part of the company's succcess - some German researchers found that compensation perception is more on "fairness" than the actual numbers, if you'd made 80k and the founders 200k, maybe you'd have been OK with it.
- Peaches4Rent 6y agoI know research is good, but you really don't need research to figure that out. You don't want to feel screwed over