You're right, but a payout from equity compensation is contingent, already, on those things and a thousand others not happening. It's a lottery and not worth my

You're right, but a payout from equity compensation is contingent, already, on those things and a thousand others not happening. It's a lottery and not worth my time trying to guess the odds. Better to use that time enjoying a fair salary to work with interesting people, and then we'll see. Maybe the promise is kept, maybe not. I think analysing equity compensation carefully is a good idea. But one outcome of that analysis can be, "Yolo, let's just give this a shot, take things a day at a time and enjoy the ride." Not everything in life can or should be put into contracts. (Despite my recent ode to them.)