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Perhaps I'm reading that statement wrong... what does equity stake and team size have to do with your work producing value for the company? Maybe you're less motivated, but your work is either producing value or not -- regardless of equity stake. Awkward wording, I suppose...?

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The role of money is implied a few times in the post (salary, net worth, etc.) While "producing value for the company" will have an effect on your continued employment and equity stake over the long term, if you only own 0.1% of the company, it's potentially not an "interesting" amount in terms of affecting your net worth (e.g. $200k at a $200M acquisition - not chump change, but your salary drop may already have swallowed that potential gain). Of course, 0.1% might be totally unrealistic, I'm just throwing a number in the air :-)

I agree the wording is a bit awkward here. Hopefully my reply to Peter clarifies it some :)

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