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0 pointszer00eyz7y ago0 comments

Seriously...

They offer you any sort of stock as compensation, and are privately held and won't show you the cap table it is a polite thanks but no thanks and exit.

Any company that isn't comfortable sharing that information isn't going anywhere fast -- or they are about to go public (but you would know that already as well).

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ThrustVectoring7y ago· 1 in thread

>it is a polite thanks but no thanks and exit

No need to be that drastic - just treat the compensation package as if the equity grant is worth $0. With the liquidity and uncertainty involved, you probably want to do that anyway, since you care a lot about "how far away am I from not having enough money" and an equity grant that pays off with a power distribution a decade out helps you very little on that front.

zer00eyzOP7y ago

Regardless of what the cap table says you should treat that grant as a $0.

I have heard "we dont have one". A sign to run.

I have heard "we dont share that sort of info with staff". Major failure to understand the information I would be entitled to owning even a SINGLE share.

No speaks volumes about management, about its confidence, about it's openness. These are thing that one who is going to work for a company should be HYPER concerned with.

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