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		snowmaker on June 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2... We've looked into that. It's hard to make the math work - when you slice up YC's equity into that many pieces, each piece becomes very small.

roguecoder on June 11, 2018 [–]

Well, presumably you'd have to take (at least some of) the companies' option pools as well, but I'd believe that the math still doesn't work: that just reflects that the equity for employees is not a valuable deal in general.

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