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An interesting exercise: assume the first engineering hire you want has to be at least the senior engineer bar at a top tech firm.

In order for the engineer's median compensation to match the median compensation he would make working at FANG, how much stock would you have to give them making reasonable assumption about valuations (ie, assume your start up will have a trajectory in the top 30% percentile, but not in the top 0.1%).

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I think FANG is not the right group to look at when it comes to “top” tech firms unless you also mean other companies like FANG wrt how competitive they are, such as MS, unicorns, hedge funds, etc.

Depending on what you’re making you also might be doing yourself a disservice by only wanting to hire from “the best” - if you’re making a simple website or CRUD app as part of a larger business strategy such as online ordering, you don’t need to hire an expert in big data

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