[danso]

> I wish that more startups treated jobs as tours of duty.

Is that even feasible for startups? I guess it depends on size and stage, but I imagine most startups don't have their mission and product to a solidified-enough stage where they can think in year-long phases...or to even have more than one major project in which a year-long engineering tour is possible.

[justonepost]

No, it's definitely not feasible for a startup. Contracts are very common in a lot of jobs, but the friction they generate don't make sense in a startup. That's why you get all that startup equity, to deal with that risk.

[bkeroack]

"[A]ll that startup equity" for normal employees is typically sub 0.1%.