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Typical sizes of option pools are 10-20%, of which earlier employees tend to get more than later ones. To be person 20 and get more than 1% is unlikely, at least as an IC. I'd recommend reading this guide on equity compensation: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation

They outline typical equity levels under "Typical Employee Equity Levels"




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