if you are working more than that and don't have >= 1% of the company, you are getting used. its really as simple as that. startups are a pyramid scheme -

if you are working more than that and don't have >= 1% of the company, you are getting used. its really as simple as that. startups are a pyramid scheme - seed round employees get Nx series A employees gets Nx as much as series B employees. that's not necessarily unjustified but a series B employee should not be working the hours of a seed round employee.