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Ask HN: Fair Equity?

by cyberpanther on 11/24/20, 2:39 PM with 2 comments

If you are at a small startup and one of the first employees, thus you have a small percent of ownership, but then you create a product (mostly by yourself) that is looking like it will bring in at least 50% of the company's revenue, what is good compensation for this? More equity, bonus, higher salary?

  • by kleer001 on 11/25/20, 12:27 AM

    A continued paycheck? A great line on your resume?

    As an employee I'm pretty sure you're already compensated for ALL your work. Don't imagine they'd be inspired to give you something unsolicited.

    If you wanted to negotiate a kind of bonus before you implemented it you might have some leverage, but afterwards the cat's out of the bag and you got nothin'. That said you'd need to be really careful negotiating and not let slip any important information.

    If the idea is so hot one might want to shop it around or use it as a basis for one's own new business.

  • by pryelluw on 11/25/20, 3:31 AM

    Nothing less than cofounder at that stage.