On: We need to rethink employee compensation

[gnorsot]

In some situations startups just don't have enough money to offer and the only thing that they could give is stocks. In those cases it is a matter of negotiating bigger cut of options to compensate for small salary.

[wmeredith → gnorsot]

It doesn't matter if it's a bigger cut of zero. That's the problem.

[rhizome → gnorsot]

I would call that a red flag for the company not being able to attract capital nor revenue.