For some startups (mostly dealing with local and self-hosted software), it may be a better option to offer perpetual license grants to the product being worked

For some startups (mostly dealing with local and self-hosted software), it may be a better option to offer perpetual license grants to the product being worked on as opposed to equity in the startup itself. This encourages employees to make the best software if they know that they are also going to be the end user as well.