In every equity discussion since, I keep in mind what happened to the employees of Skype[1]. As a "founding engineer", I'm gonna need a lot more than 1% of opti

In every equity discussion since, I keep in mind what happened to the employees of Skype[1]. As a "founding engineer", I'm gonna need a lot more than 1% of options that will be worthless if the company fails, and probably worthless if the company succeeds. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-stock-option-plan-heres-why-they-did-it/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-... tldr: They just cancelled the employee options, and the founders and investors kept all the money.