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Thanks for the precious information!

I thought about asking here because it's not the first time HN saves my "life" by providing proper perspective on important decisions.

Thank you!

I'm absolutely also going to get in touch with HR and also get a proper tax accountant.

Thank you for your thorough reply, I really appreciate it.

I can guarantee you I'm no guru at all, I just have a solid understanding of distributed systems on top of average coding skills.

Anyway, I talked to the recruiter and have still been on the defensive side, so he just told me to share with him what's the number I'll need in order to stop this and just say yes, and he'll work with the financial department to see what he can do. I'm going to probably try to get a very mild increase after I hear what the other companies have to say, but it's definitely good to know I can't overly milk the cow

Thanks for your opinion!

Thanks for your feedback!

The problem is that, while my current startup is "imaginary" money compared to RSUs, the business is going very strong, we have multi million dollar yearly revenues so I'm not at a point where I consider the options as a huge gamble. It's very likely that they will retain a significant value.

Also notice that RSUs are 300k over 4 years, so effectively 75k a year: is 75k a year "extremely high"? I was under the impression that several employees at google and similar usually double their yearly compensation with RSUs, every year, which means RSU grant = 4*base salary (e.g. 350k a year total comp)

But you don't always need to build a network yourself: in my experience, if you're reasonably bright from the technical point of view, you get paired with a sales account manager who will chase the deals for you, so you just show up, take care of the (relative simple) technical bits, and get your commission. He will do everything else.

This was highly inspirational and I loved it, especially "My customers and I enter into a business transaction as peers. This mutual respect is very important to me".

If I might ask, what kind of enterprise software can generate that much profit from a one-man shop?

Thanks