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by Retric 3400 days ago
It's not about having equity now.

If you have a seed company that fails in two years then the equity equation is meaningless. However, if in two years things are going good, but it's not clear you are the next google then you really don't want to lose key employees and it's going to take more equity to keep them interested. On the other hand if in two years it looks like you will be the next google then getting more capital is easy and you really don't want to lose a key person.