[BoredPositron]

I don't understand why young engineers would do 996/007 work schedules for just 5% equity that gets diluted as soon as new funding round or an acquisition comes around. Look at the recent acquisitions of AI coding tools these "deals" should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone grinding away for someone else's benefit rather than their own.

[njoshi023]

1. Learnings and growth.

2. Payoffs if a startup does well.

3. Gets you in the entrepreneurship game. Out of the big tech trap. My first startup did not do well but a ton of us ended up starting companies, entering VC, etc.

[throwawayoldie]

"There's [a sucker] born every minute." --P. T. Barnum

"And many of them have CS degrees from good universities." --Me