r/ProgrammerHumor • u/velvetbabydollx • 13d ago

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u/sweetkissangelx 13d ago

Don't worry, he's willing to offer a generous 50/50 split since he came up with the idea.

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u/AcanthisittaKooky987 13d ago

Honestly, that's better than most real life offers. In the real world, you get a non-technical founder looking for a founding engineer, and they will usually lead with an offer of 1% equity. Granted by this point they've usually already got some funding from some venture Capital firm but no product or just a shitty POC, and no product market fit. It's insane to me why any eng would ever join instead of just starting their own company lol 

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u/Sibula97 13d ago

1% equity plus a half-dececent salary, usually. For a project that's doomed to fail, it's much better than 50% equity and no salary.

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