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I'm glad you found happiness and out of the rat race. how did you get ripped off?
by summitsummit 6y ago
I'm glad you found happiness and out of the rat race. how did you get ripped off?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoI had no idea what percentage to ask for. I asked a few friends who had been in startups, and that convinced me that the 1% I was being offered (over 5 years) was a good deal. What I didn't realize till about a year later was that my friends had all joined their respective companies as, say, employee #20 or #30. I was coming into a company with zero employees, and it turns out that I should have been pushing for on the order of 5x was I was being offered. OTOH, I did tell Jeff that I was having a daughter in several months and planned to go to a 3 day week after that happened. He agreed to that ("I knew when I met you that you'd think about work 24/7 anyway"), so there was a tradeoff there. I'm not really complaining, but when I did find out what some other early hires had negotiated, it stuck in my throat for a bit.