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throw181428on Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

Wrote my own in Elixir, needed some features like auto-star. I'll possibly release it in the future.

throw181428on Ask HN: How to negotiate shares at my new job?

You're assuming that it would be valued 40M at exit, right?

How would it be different from them giving me 0.5% instead of 1% but at "face value"?

throw181428on Ask HN: How to negotiate shares at my new job?

From your and other comments I feel I poorly worded the OP: as CTO I would lead a small team and rewrite the site which is the main source of income for this company.

throw181428on Ask HN: How to negotiate shares at my new job?

I don't know where you got that it's failing and needs saving.

This is a perfectly fine company which has been around for 10+years and already received a couple of acquisition offers, AFAIK.