[ahl]

Equity is mentioned in the previous post:

> Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation. While it’s true that startup equity is important, it’s also true that startup equity doesn’t pay the orthodontist’s bill or get the basement repainted. We believe that every employee should have equity to give them a stake in the company’s future (and that an outsized return for investors should also be an outsized return for employees), but we also believe that the presence of equity can’t be used as an excuse for unsustainably low cash compensation. As for how equity is determined, it really deserves its own in-depth treatment, but in short, equity compensates for risk – and in a startup, risk reduces over time: the first employee takes much more risk than the hundredth.

[TZubiri]

Yeah, but equity is very standard in SF startups, Oxide actually goes in the opposite direction, by reducing weight from equity and placing it on salary.

[ahl]

What makes you say that? We talk about salary compensation, yes, but there's also equity compensation.