I can understand why an owner wouldn’t want to give away small parts of their company. What I don’t understand is why some people are willing to work as if they were part-owners when they’re just on salary. In a lot of start ups, the amount of extra effort people put in when they get options means the options easily pay for themselves.
Well, i enjoy data analytics for one so it doesn’t matter how much you pay me or don’t, when I do it, i do it to the best of my ability. But second, yeah id rather just take the cash salary and invest it in a sp500 index. Especially if it’s a startup, nine times out of ten those options are just worthless, like paying your employees in lottery tickets. For every google story there are a thousand startups that just die in two years.
I can understand why an owner wouldn’t want to give away small parts of their company. What I don’t understand is why some people are willing to work as if they were part-owners when they’re just on salary. In a lot of start ups, the amount of extra effort people put in when they get options means the options easily pay for themselves.
Well, i enjoy data analytics for one so it doesn’t matter how much you pay me or don’t, when I do it, i do it to the best of my ability. But second, yeah id rather just take the cash salary and invest it in a sp500 index. Especially if it’s a startup, nine times out of ten those options are just worthless, like paying your employees in lottery tickets. For every google story there are a thousand startups that just die in two years.