An angel investor who owns 1% of a company and an employee who is offered 1% of the company are not not not in materially similar positions.
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Angels get preferred stock, often with minor preference. Workers get common. Common worthless in a variety of failure-case liquidity events.
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Investors have a portfolio because they know most companies will fail. Employees very rarely have 10 equity grants active at once.
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