[jiveturkey]

> If a company runs a tender offer with a valuation of $200m, your stock is $400,000. Is that a lot? Well considering you probably make 50k-100k less per year in salary at a startup vs a "big company", for 6 years time and considering that you also get other compensation at a big company, that isn't really that rewarding.

There are other factors to consider. Do you like big company culture and politics? Do you like being a completely replaceable cog? Do you like having order and process and a well defined job?

Even if you prefer a startup, for most of them you will come out with nothing. So you have to factor in the risk ... you’ll need multiple startup jobs to hit one success.