#equity on Hacker News

3 stories tagged equity, newest first.

Screenshot of twitter.com: There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com)

507 points by shadowtree 4 months ago | 252 comments

John Carmack's X post reflecting on early id Software mistakes: Quake's overambition, pushing staff too hard, and a flawed founder stock arrangement.

john-carmack id-software quake game-development

Screenshot of twitter.com: Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth

Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth (twitter.com)

568 points by rfurmani 1 year ago | 388 comments

X post by Windsurf's employee #2 saying he joined Cognition and received only 1% of his shares' value after the Google DeepMind deal.

windsurf cognition google-deepmind equity

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Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity (x.com)

368 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 189 comments

A post on X by journalist Kelsey Piper reporting that departing OpenAI employees must sign lifetime non-disparagement agreements or forfeit vested equity.

openai non-disparagement equity employment-contracts

#equity on Hacker News

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days(twitter.com)

Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth(twitter.com)

Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity(x.com)

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days (twitter.com)

Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth (twitter.com)

Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity (x.com)