[briggsbio]

Frankly, you shouldn't wait for the equity portion because of the cliff. You won't vest any shares in the first year, so if it is for a "contract" CTO position initially, why the trepidation from them for the stock right away?

They will pay more for you without stock, and they won't lose any stock if they don't keep you longer than 1 year, so they shouldn't be reluctant to issue options to you. If they are, they sound as if they are gun-shy in issuing their option pool, which is suspect. Not only for you, but for other future employees as well.

[fbliss]

Thank you, I should note that these are preliminary talks and there are some missing bits of info on my end - they have approached me to do this, but we haven't talked details yet, so a follow up with probably come out of the discussion we have in a couple weeks.