A factor 10 dilution is huge and I'd like to see the math on that. There are different roles founders hire for under the "founding engineer" umbrella. There i

A factor 10 dilution is huge and I'd like to see the math on that. There are different roles founders hire for under the "founding engineer" umbrella. There is your fresh out of bootcamp "founding engineer" brought on during pre-seed or seed stages to help bash out POCs and mocks used to sell the vision. Then there is the "founding engineer" they bring in post money and customer commitments to actually deliver the MVP and help build out a professional engineering program. I'm in the later category and those roles can pay very well for early stage startups.