> You could even pay only $500k/y to these excellent guys but no startup does that because they're not sure In some cases, equity does provide this level of pa

> You could even pay only $500k/y to these excellent guys but no startup does that because they're not sure In some cases, equity does provide this level of pay. The problem is there is no way to know which startup will get to 100x it's current value, and which one will flame out.