[gryphonshafer]

So this is somewhat OT, but in reading the slides, I noticed this gem:

> Potential money is worth more than actual money.

In very, very rare circumstances, that is true. In the vast majority of cases, it's total B$. It's what company founders tell employees to exploit them, to get them to work overtime as a norm for crap normal-time pay. It's what the founders genuinely hope is true because they own so much of the company, but it rarely turns out that your shares are worth as much as the net-present-value of the delta to an average salary. At least in my experience.

[GrumpyYoungMan]

>It's what company founders tell employees to exploit them, to get them to work overtime as a norm for crap normal-time pay.

Um, that's precisely his point since he's writing it from the POV of a employer.

[st3v3r]

Which is exactly why Alex St. John can go fornicate himself with a pointy stick.

[colinplamondon]

There's lots of great compensation negotiation guides for engineers. This one just happens to be for employers.

[DonHopkins]

In so many ways, Alex St. John is just like Silicon Valley's Russ Hanneman [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo