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mrshoe
on July 12, 2010
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My experience as the first employee of a Y Combina...
One company might choose to give an early hire 20%, possibly even making them a cofounder. Another company might give an early hire 0.5%. Hence the 40x variability in the amount of equity given to early hires.
dustingetz
on July 12, 2010
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all equity isn't created equally -- .5% of google is worth vastly more than 20% of a brand new startup.
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