I got the idea for today’s Uncertainty Wednesday from seeing quite a few tweets in my timeline to the effect that startups don’t really have meaningful upside for employees. Tracing these tweets back, led me to this post titled “working for a startups makes increasingly less sense” which has the following quote in itThat startup sold for 200 million dollars and, as the 10th engineer, I made … 15000 dollars from that exit.First, let me do some math here: 0.015 / 200 = 0.000075 which is 0.0075%...

I got the idea for today’s Uncertainty Wednesday from seeing quite a few tweets in my timeline to the effect that startups don’t really have meaningful upside for employees. Tracing these tweets back, led me to this post titled “working for a startups makes increasingly less sense” which has the following quote in itThat startup sold for 200 million dollars and, as the 10th engineer, I made … 15000 dollars from that exit.First, let me do some math here: 0.015 / 200 = 0.000075 which is 0.0075%...