Hacker News Reader

That list is not accurate for what it's worth - several notable exits missing (justin.tv a huge one). Also bear in mind the data you're missing on that is how fast the "dead" startups died. Startups that died quickly didn't have a big impact on the employees lost opportunity cost.

> YC company or not, taking a lot of equity for a lower salary it's still a gamble. At the end it's a matter of you believing the team you're joining can make it big or not.

Thanks to Second Market this is no longer true.

There's a pretty good market for non-public equity these days.

Unless I am a severe outlier I'd take that with a giant bit of skepticism. I've never had an options agreement that didn't require company approval to sell & I've never seen that given except for specific restructuring reasons.

Most billion dollar companies can be traded without much difficulty. I've done 3 txns.