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by dinkleberg 2006 days ago
The chance of any startup succeeding is rather low. For the vast majority of companies taking a significantly lower salary for higher options just means you're going to lose 5-6 digits in opportunity cost over the years you work there (if you're can get into a FAANG as a SWE could be 7 digit!)

If you believe in the company and think it has a real opportunity to take off, then sure that might be a good trade off. But for the majority of startups this isn't going to be the case.