[gaius]

He thinks the right equity stake for a great engineer is 0.2%. Huh.

[philsnow]

That number is anywhere from laughable to totally reasonable to overly generous, depending on several things including size of the company.

If you're giving employee #1 0.2%, maybe you should be hiring a contractor or something.

If you're Google, you're not going to give an engineer 0.2% even if he's The Best One.