The valuable lesson you should all take away. If the company is not public ask for a "cap table", if the answer isn't "it's in your inbox"... Then your respons

The valuable lesson you should all take away. If the company is not public ask for a "cap table", if the answer isn't "it's in your inbox"... Then your response is: If you don not have a cap table then the shares are more or less toilet paper. You are going to take them but they are worth nothing in this deal, say "more cash please", and as salary.