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What's a reasonable percentage for a first engineer, do you think (not counting CTO)?
by angersock 12y ago
What's a reasonable percentage for a first engineer, do you think (not counting CTO)?
- kasey_junk 12y agoHow much experience does this first engineer have?
- eastbayjake 12y agoSam Altman thinks it's 1.5%[1] I really liked another blog post by Sam about equity distribution as a startup grows: "a company ought to be giving at least 10% in total to the first 10 employees, 5% to the next 20, and 5% to the next 50"[2] Quora has anecdotal evidence that 0.5 - 1.0% is common[3] [1] http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire [2] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity [3] http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-typical-amounts-of-equity-offered-to-engineers-by-startups-of-different-sizes http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-typical-amounts-of-equity-...