Hi, I'm italian. I had a "good" chance with an italian startupper based in SF, I worked from home in Italy while waiting for my visa. Never seen it. I had a c

Hi, I'm italian. I had a "good" chance with an italian startupper based in SF, I worked from home in Italy while waiting for my visa. Never seen it. I had a contract for 4.2k$/month plus stock options but he said that he could not send more than 3k$/month in italy to avoid IRS checks, so I agreed to get 1.2k$/month in sign in bonuses when I'd have been in San Francisco. My salary began to be late after may (I billed June in November), my visa was never ready... and in November I broke up. I just said him to fk off losing my 28k$ credit just because this "good person" said me that I WAS A ROBBERY because I did not give him an algorithm. The fact was simple: he did not payed for that algorithm, it should have been done in December. I did a lot of other works till that moment, like: tutoring juniors, managing comunication with frontend team and backend development with SF resources (during italian night), I did releases and saved his ass when some SF guy did some mistakes! So by the end, he payed a Senior Software Engineer the great amount of 18k$/year. I was getting mad, so better say a "fk u" than going crazy. He proposed to pay me a small amount of money to get an agreement where I declared to never speak bad about him... he was a fool! I'll never agree with that. My idea is simple now: MONEY NOW! WORDS LATER! Don't get fooled by these people. Shares are not going to make you rich in the 99.8% of the cases! I passed a year listening to stories about our successful future, about milionaire investments that he never got and about how beautiful would have become my life in silicon valley... this kind of people is made by great liars... trust them only if they give you warranties and expirations to refund you (I bet nobody will never give that to you because "it's a startup")! I got no contracts, I got no money, my ceo was a "good italian" entrepreneur in silicon valley, the same "good italian" as our politicians: they speak good, they act bad... I will never trust someone like him again. I will just start a procedure for an international fraud just to do my citizen duty. Take care and be warned!