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How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

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Re: How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

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I too find it incredibly strange and most importantly dangerous . 1) You are intertwining your MARRIAGE with work. Rule #1 is don't shit where you eat. 2) You make matters worse because your husband is your boss. This will screw up the relationship dynamic, and that's not necessarily a guess, Im 99% certain it will be hard to separate, especially with longer start-up hours. Good luck, you'll need it. 3) You are putti…

I find your response to be a bit dramatic and troll-y, but you do raise some valid, common concerns which I will address now for the sake of others who might be curious: [don't shit where you eat] If things start to get uncomfortable, for whatever reason, I can get another job. I'm smart enough not to be 100% confident things will work perfectly. However, I have lived with Kyle and the other founders for 8 years. We…

I'm sorry you feel I have "trolled" you. Not my intention. This was simply far enough away from what I normally encounter to justify voicing my opinion, not that my expectation would be that you would reconsider.

For clarification I never called you weird, ad hominem isn't really my thing.

And there is of course room for me to be completely wrong. I'm sure you're educated enough to avoid the most common pit-falls. It is simply my preference that given the opportunity, I wouldn't have made the same decisions.

Given the statistical risk of problems arising from this configuration, I can't imagine what the payoff would be that would justify the exposure.

Re: How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

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I love this. Congrats Kyle, Michelle and the whole team for: a) Going through these types of negotiations with your loved ones (not just close friends) and trying not to water it down - or give favors. There are many people, that I imagine, might want to get an extra few pts of equity just because you both are going to be married soon. So Kudos on keeping it professional. b) Making this entire transaction as transpar…

Thank you!! I describe myself as "hard-working generalist". I'm good at coordinating teams and getting things done. I've been working on short and long term goal planning, customer dev, testing, documentation, and I wrote a rails dashboard that uses our API. I'm also involved in our design and strategy discussions. Lots of early startup stuff :)

Nice!
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