The company recently got $3M investment. I’m being offered $152k salary and 2% equity, vested over 4 years. Is this good?
My thinking is that 2% of $3M is about $60k, so I could treat that as an extra $15k per year. But if I look at the valuation based on that investment, it is probably worth 5x that, like an extra $75k per year. All in all it is over $200k compensation, which I’m grateful for, but it’s on par with a tech job at a big tech company. Are these reasonable assumptions, or am I missing something?
2% can get water downed as they raise more capital and issue more shares
How? Its 2% equity. You are the 3rd guy now saying this. You cannot water down someone with equity, otherwise why would there be such a thing as equity when some owner could just turn your 2% into 1%