[harryh]

This is the best comment in this entire thread. People see 1% and immediately think small when that is not, in fact, the case.

They have almost never thought through the fact that it generally takes a lot of people to build a successful company so that 100% needs to get divided up into a lot of little pieces.

[Iftheshoefits]

It's pretty tiny when the expectation is that one will be treated like a regular employee with respect to compensation and benefits but expected to behave like a 20% (or more)-equity founder with respect to passion and (especially) effort.

[harryh]

That's not the expectation.