Where are you seeing these numbers from? What stage of startup? If Uber offered you 1% equity and $60k/year you'd have to be an idiot to turn them down at this

Where are you seeing these numbers from? What stage of startup? If Uber offered you 1% equity and $60k/year you'd have to be an idiot to turn them down at this stage. If an unfunded just-an-idea startup did, you'd never take it. Basically: you can't evaluate equity in a vacuum. It's entirely company-and-stage-of-growth-dependent. Those offers might be awesome or terrible.