This new seed stage startup is offering me 30% less salary and ESOP’s worth 2x my annual comp saying that it will explode 10x in the next round? Sould I take it or pass?
It’s specially hard in this market. But generally too a startup has to prove a lot from the money they raised in previous rounds to justify them raising again.
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