On: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combina...

[jacquesm]

> My salary is nearly back up to what it used to be now though.

How much do you figure is your overall loss because of joining (in $) ? Does your equity make up for that ?

[abstractbill → jacquesm]

If you assume the company's most-recent valuation accurately reflects its worth, then yeah, my equity more-than makes up for my loss. Until there's an exit though of course, the equity is essentially worthless (I find I stay more sane if I just act like it has no more value than a random lottery ticket has).