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by mempko 500 days ago
Why shouldn't a startup engineer earn more than an engineer at Google? Think about it, they take much much more risk. Their comp can go to zero. It's not liquid like a google engineer. Also they are creating something net-new that can benefit society in the long run. We want, as a society, to reward people for taking those kinds of risks!

In other words, we need more startup engineers and less google engineers.

1 comments

Because Google's revenue is $2M/employee while a startup's will be $0/employee
You do understand equity scales with the success of the startup right? It's not cash.