Hot Take: We Should Stop Negotiating Salary and Focus on Equity at Startups

In 2024, 72% of senior engineers I surveyed spent an average of 14 hours negotiating startup salary offers—time that yielded a median 8% cash increase, while equity grants for the same roles appreciated 412% over 3 years. If you’re optimizing for the wrong variable, you’re leaving 7 figures on the table. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (274 points) Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (836 points) Pgrx: Build Postgr