Yes, if the founders of a company, who have the best visibility into the company, don't value their equity, it's a waving red flag on fire. Either they are idiots (inexperienced at best, incompetent more likely), or company = doomed.
Obviously offering tptacek 5% in a company isn't bad, but offering an office admin 5% is.
Yeah, that was that I intended -- a general example. Given her previous salary of $116k+, she was obviously in some kind of professional/technical IC or low level manager role before.
Obviously offering tptacek 5% in a company isn't bad, but offering an office admin 5% is.