3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Take That Startup Job Offer — From a VC who Invested $500m in Startups
<p>Imagine. You’re employee #1 of Google. Heck, let’s say #100. Even if you owned 0.01% of the now $1.6 trillion company, you’d have $160 million.</p>
<p>Hundred still seems too unlikely? What about Facebook’s IPO in 2012 that created an estimated 12,000 millionaires?</p>
<p>These seem like ages ago? What about recent IPOs of Uber, Airbnb, Palantir, Slack, and the like that created <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2019/03/19/ipos-from-uber-airbnb-pinterest-and-lyft-could-create-a-230-billion-windfall-and-6000-new-millionaires/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">an estimated 6,000 millionaires</a>? Oh did I mention the <a href="https://medium.com/entrepreneur-s-handbook/a-crash-course-on-venture-capital-from-an-ex-investor-at-a-100-billion-fund-8effbac9062" rel="noopener">recent $20bn acquisition of Figma</a>?</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/swlh/3-reasons-you-shouldnt-take-that-startup-job-offer-from-a-vc-who-invested-500m-in-startups-f6fa6faadb4"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>