The difference between the two is that companies which materially derisk their businesses and are seen as doing so by investing professionals (and/or by customers) end up hiring vastly disproportionately to companies which are pre-derisking.
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You are probably being too generous. I was somewhere between 200-300 at a company that later IPOed and had I exercised, I'd have made about 60K. I've been screwed in every other exit, before and since, regardless of employee number, for the past 25 years.
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Of all employees granted equity in private companies - what percentage would you say are technical, and among the first 1000 hires? What percentage of those are working at companies that will successfully exit? What pctg of those will not have their shares diluted to irrelevance?
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