It's a good question, but Sam Altman has written about the need to compensate startup employees more fairly (see the link at the bottom of the article). Also, t

It's a good question, but Sam Altman has written about the need to compensate startup employees more fairly (see the link at the bottom of the article). Also, these types of "startup equity is worthless" articles tend to pop up frequently on HN, where they often linger on the front page for hours and generate the same discussions in the comments. If this article is being penalized at all, that's probably the reason. HN generally penalizes articles about recurring topics. I suspect YC realizes it's in their best interest for their portfolio companies to be fair and transparent in their equity offers.