[mattmaroon]

I really don't think young people think/care much about equity until you're one of the hotter startups, at which point 1 year doesn't seem so long. If you're hiring on at Dropbox now, you're working that year. If you're hiring on at some company that's 6 months old that nobody has heard of, the equity is just a batch of lottery tickets.

Put another way, I doubt anyone has ever said "I would have worked there if the cliff was only 6 months".