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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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# installing Homebrew, and some common packages

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
$ brew update
$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
$ brew install apple-gcc42 wget curl git ack ctags-exuberant

# installing rvm and ruby

$ curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

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