Yeah, and once it starts to boom, the dilution of shares is crazy because the investors start to pile into their pool (which is also your pool if you're an empl

Yeah, and once it starts to boom, the dilution of shares is crazy because the investors start to pile into their pool (which is also your pool if you're an employee). Founders shares are really the only good ones, because that pool doesn't dilute the more money they raise. I'm not sure if this is always true but when I started contracting for startups I hear a lot about this.