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by rshe 4807 days ago
Come on. Being part of a startup is not about whether you can get a good salary for reasonable hours. It's not about founders trying to take advantage of engineers to enrich themselves.

If you're considering a startup, ask yourself: am I passionate about what this startup is trying to accomplish? If you really are, join the team. Get on the bandwagon. You get equity, which means your successes are shared. If it's just another startup that you don't care about, it's not a good match anyways.
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flyinRyan 4806 days ago
If you're not a founder it's not your company. Being passionate about someone else's "dream" (often; get rich quick scheme) isn't noble, it's naive. That "equity" you get is almost certainly worthless (what evidence do you have that it's not? "feelings" are not evidence).
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ucee054 4806 days ago
If your startup aims to terraform Mars I'll be passionate about it.

If it's a location based social advertising network, meh not so much.

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