关于创始工程师职位的纠结
2 分•作者: gondolin1683•3 天前
标题说明了一切。我目前在一家大型科技公司工作了 2.5 年，年薪 25 万美元。我喜欢我的工作与生活平衡，并且可以从事很多不同的副业。
最近，我被一家食品行业的垂直 SaaS 公司录用为创始工程师（第一位员工）。薪酬为 16 万美元，外加 3% 的股权。但有一个前提条件是，我将是第一位技术员工，而两位联合创始人都是非技术人员。
这两位联合创始人确实非常出色，看起来非常聪明。其中一位在该领域拥有大量人脉，因此他们能够接触到客户。该公司尚未产生收入，也未推出产品，但已在 1000 万美元的估值下筹集了 300 万美元的种子轮融资。
如果我加入，我基本上将承担技术联合创始人的工作，但回报却微乎其微。
我对此感到非常矛盾。一方面，我渴望在初创公司工作，我最终想创办自己的公司，这可能是一个建立更大人脉（我觉得我目前的人脉不足）的垫脚石，而且如果我人生中有什么时候风险不是问题的话，那就是现在。
另一方面，我认为我在这里得到的交易非常糟糕，我将构建整个产品，但几乎得不到任何回报。只有当这家公司在 5-6 年内实现 1 亿美元的退出时，财务状况才真正说得通，但随着人工智能的进步，我甚至不确定 SaaS 在未来几年是否还会是一个可行的商业模式。
有人做过这类决定吗？回过头来看，你对自己的决定感到高兴吗？你会改变什么吗？
总结：一位大型科技公司的员工在是否成为一家没有产品的初创公司的第一位技术员工的问题上感到矛盾，并希望从走过这条路的人那里获得建议。
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Title says it all. I’m currently at 2.5 YOE at big tech making 250k. I love my work life balance and get to work on a lot of different side hustles.<p>Recently, I was offered the founding engineer (#1 employee) at a vertical SAAS company in the food industry. The comp is 160k for 3% equity. The caveat is that I would be the first technical employee, both co founders are non technical.<p>The 2 co founders are genuinely very impressive and seem very smart. One of them has a lot of connections in this space so they have a way to reach customers. The company is pre revenue and pre product and raised 3M seed against 10M.<p>If I came in, I’d essentially be doing the work of a technical co founder with a fraction of the upside.<p>I’m very conflicted on this. One part of me yearns to work in the startup space, I eventually want to start my own and this could be a stepping stone in terms of getting a better network (I feel my network is currently lacking) and if there’s any time in my life where risk is not an issue it would be now.<p>On the other side, I think I’m getting a really bad deal here, I’d build out the entire product and barely get anything in return. The financials only really make sense if this company gets a 100M exit within like 5-6 years, but with how AI is progressing I’m not even sure SAAS will be a viable business model in coming years.<p>Has anyone made these types of decisions before? Looking back are you glad you made that decision? Would you change anything?<p>TLDR; big tech employee conflicted about becoming the first technical employee at a startup with no product and would like advice from others who have gone down this path.