[questime]

1. The risk is you've wasted your time being underpaid at a shitty organization run by people who you can't really learn anything from.

2. It's not close to competitive, YC backed companies are cash starved before they raise their first real round.

3. It's more fun if things go well (1/10 chance even after you are YC backed)

4. Odds of this are astronomically low and even lower outside the Fed's ZIRP.

I've worked at multiple size organizations too except for pre seed/seed companies because it seems awful - the Founders are just some random Berkeley kids without product market fit. All the people who I know who are in the same space would never take that deal. What percentage of VCs or Founders do you think take that deal?