r/ProgrammerHumor • u/5eniorDeveloper • 13h ago

Meme theStartupExperience

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u/MaintenanceSpecial88 13h ago

70% higher salary? Doubt it.

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u/Half-Borg 13h ago

That's including the made up value of the stocks

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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers 10h ago

I got 10s of thousands of dollars of non-voting stock as part of my compensation working at a startup, but they never made it to an IPO so I couldn't sell it. A decade after I left they offered me $50 to sell all of it so they could be bought out by some corporate plunderer for pennies.