The answer is always "it depends", but <10% is the right ballpark. I would say 5-10% is probably what you would expect to go to employees depending on the speci

The answer is always "it depends", but <10% is the right ballpark. I would say 5-10% is probably what you would expect to go to employees depending on the specific trajectory things went. Generally, companies start by creating an options pool of 10% of shares for employees, but they do not expect to blow through it. It really depends on who they hire though, what those employees value, how the company is doing, etc. The equity compensation employees get also decreases pretty steeply by employee number.