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I am starting an outsourcing IT Support company, and I want to hire people with autistic spectrum, since I am autistic myself. I would like to know if anyone is interested to invest on it, or if anyone would like to hire our services. The company is based in Colombia. Our website is repshome.com
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Sounds like a bad deal for any roles that require 3+ years of experience. The better question is at what point a startup would switch from making an initial grant on a dollar basis instead of % basis. I’ve seen a lot of variety. You should be offered some equity at your level.
Luck of the draw. Typically tech companies continue granting some form of equity comp into perpetuity (initially options then restricted stock around IPO time). Obviously number of shares will decrease over time
Actual equity? Founding team and maybe first hires. Stock options (which is often confused as equity)? Well, most startups and businesses would continue to grant that, in the UK we have the EMI scheme too which makes it super tax efficient.
Thanks all for your thoughts! Appreciate the input- I will keep asking for some sort of company buy-in and wait for the 'yes'
Don’t over-weight equity though. The vast majority of equity grants pre-IPO are not going to be life changing. It will be really hard hunting for that. IMO You should focus on maxing out your salary. That is a more sure fire way to get significant income.
Definitely try to find a company that wants you to feel ownership of their success. Just careful how much you give up in search for that tiny piece of a pie.
If you really want a lot of equity than start your own company.
Generally earlier on and more senior levels.
I’d say they stop giving equity to any employee after the seed round but I guess it varies
Damn that’s fucked, that’s one of the biggest draws
Well, there's no clear rule. Most of my paycheck comes on form of equity.