Comment by aristofun

Hear me out - you’re loosing in comparison to other jobs you might had had with required skills _even_ if startup succeds!

Founding engineers get 1% of company at best.

With very optimistic 200mil buyout in extremely optimistic 5 years you have 2mil tops.

With conservatively optimistic 400k/year (senior level salaries in a public company in us) you make this in same 5 years without a) relying on luck b) without 80h work week c) with plenty of talented colleagues to learn from etc etc.

This isn’t even about a chance it’s a pure math.

Just like casino is not about the chance, it’s about statistics.

But it promotes idea of “chance” to attract customers.