> most people who work at startups aren't interested in money.
That's a bold assertion, bolder than "most people who work at startups usually don't get to have competing offers for $250k to pass up"
That's a bold assertion, bolder than "most people who work at startups usually don't get to have competing offers for $250k to pass up"
Also, based on my convsations with literally hundreds of startup engineers, I have seen three trends:
1. They care very little about how much they are getting paid due to being passionate about their work (awesome!)
2. If they do care about money, they are under the false belief that their startup options are worth more than than that startup's investors were willing to pay for them in the secondary market (i.e., the price of a nearby round)
3. They are almost always talented enough to get a high-paying job somewhere else