Founders it's not 1990. Stop treating your employees like it is

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433774

Founders take these arguments as a devaluation of what they brought to the table: an idea, and a connection to an investor.

We all know execution is what makes a company.

BUT

As long as there is a supply of young and naive technologists who let themselves be sold on low pay and "considerable" equity packages (< ~5%), nothing is going to change. That's capitalism, baby.

It confuses me how someone who founded the company and someone who starts 6 months after the company started are treated so differently when it comes to value in the company.

A perfect summary for why one should not join a startup