On: Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

[smokey_circles]

I don't understand some of the points here.

You as an employee are not entitled to equity at all. That's incentive, not required.

And equity isn't a great offer either. How many startups REGULARLY fail before they even get out the door?

For everyone talking about how much money they made off of equity options, we can find plenty more that lost out on a chunk of their monthly salary.

I'm not saying don't take equity, but let's be honest: Identifying if a company has the potential for their equity share to outweigh the lost salary requires skills and knowledge most of us don't have.

[specialist → smokey_circles]

What about profit sharing? Fairness?

When execs get a visit from the gold faerie, it's just good manners to spread around some of the manna.

[jpalawaga → smokey_circles]

I think in this case its pretty clear that equity would have been a great offer.