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Agreed, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Also $300K a year is definitely in the "nice problem to have" category.

You're describing the equity situation at startups. Big tech has fairly stable stock prices, so stock performance means the difference between taking home 400k or 600k total tops. 400k us still more than 300k. On the flip side, this also means no million dollar payday from regular salary+equity.

And with any public company you can still invest part of the salary in your employers stock if you want to participate in that $1m chance (not that I would recommend it though).