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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

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mlevental ◴[07 Feb 19 16:54 UTC] No.19106443[source]▶
crunchbase says pinterest has had 15 funding rounds. certainly they weren't all complete rounds and it would've been nice equity but nowhere near the nominal 1-2% early employees get.
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zhobbs ◴[07 Feb 19 17:30 UTC] No.19106712[source]▶
If he stayed he might have ended up in an executive position, getting additional stock grants down the line.
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1. mlevental ◴[07 Feb 19 19:00 UTC] No.19107490{3}[source]▶
fair enough