Sam Parr  ⚪️

For those of you asking me if I bought my wework equity—I did not. But, not because I didn’t choose to buy it. Despite joining the company very early on, I was not offered options. Here’s a thread about what happened and my feelings about it now. /1

Cool thread. 1 thing that I find wild is that people are mad for you. It's wild that people think equity is their right. It's not. For years people started/owned businesses and others worked there for a salary. But now equity is assumed. Seems outlandish.

I think I took a pretty objective approach and I’m trying to be diplomatic through it all. I agree that people are really rallying and strong in their opinions which I find interesting and of course, really supportive.

I can’t say I find it outlandish but I can say that I respect and understand the opinions of pretty much every angle, including yours. I always welcome the discourse.

I dig the insight. If I were Adam I would have given equity to employees (we do at our co). And I think you're handling it better than I would. But I also think some folks replies are silly and entitled.

Out of curiosity (don't answer if you don't want to): but were you paid well as the 17th employee? Was it market rate for NYC for a young person?

I don’t know what market rate was. I started as a community manager and they gave me $10 an hour. this converted to 28,000 a year after two months to see if they liked me i guess. After three mo, I was promoted to community manager, making 36. i doubt this was “market” though.