[sunsunsunsun]

That first article sure is funny. 10% to the first 10 employees... my current employer gave me roughly 0.001% in stock options and I'm employee #5.

[8note]

That sounds like either they didn't need you or you made a poor choice? Or you were paid in cash instead?

[brabel]

Yeah, not OP that's my situation... they paid me way above market though :D so I am happy.

[maerF0x0]

or possibly it's an extremely capital intensive startup and sunsunsunsunsunsunsuns didnt put up any money.

[dchftcs]

If the company goes to a billion, you get 10000, and that's without dilution. Sounds like a really bad deal, unless you're already paid a lot of cash.

[subroutine]

Was that like 100 shares?

[subroutine]

Downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious. At that point (5 employees) the company probably had the standard 10 mil authorized stock.

10 mil * .001% = 100 shares