I haven't been prevented but I found that most startups even in the valley want to give you peanuts in terms of stocks and in fact many of them are now calling

I haven't been prevented but I found that most startups even in the valley want to give you peanuts in terms of stocks and in fact many of them are now calling this 'industry' standard. This is a major ploy and most developers appear to fall for this. The founder sells them a vision of a billion dollar company and gives the 0.01% in exchange when they are employee no. 10.