Founding Engineer
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
A Product Market Fit Show 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
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Walker: Hiring a startup's first three engineers has never been harder
“I think that like, I think hiring the number one, number two, number three engineer of the business has almost never been harder. Because the alternatives are so obviously like hitting you over the head. If you can be a founding engineer at a startup, why coul…”
Bonatsos: Founding engineers taking low equity are the foundation of VC
“Our founders wouldn't do well if there's like, you know, unique class of people, founding engineers or founding talent that show up. A day after your company gets funded or get started, then they get like one 30th of the equity that you get. God bless those pe…”
Balaji Srinivasan: A founding creator is as important as a founding engineer
“And the founding creator is as important as the founding engineer, because the founding engineer is implementation, but the founding creator is the distribution, right? The founding engineer is the how, but the founding creator is the why.”
Siroker: Using founding engineer titles reduces early employee turnover risk
“To be a founding engineer is so much more meaningful to somebody, both in terms of their, you know, if, for example, if 80% of your friends are founders of companies and you are just a software engineer, but you started in your first employee, like that just p…”
Founding engineers at VC-backed startups typically receive 1% to 5% equity
“And then as a founding engineer, you're probably one of the first one, two or three engineers. So you might get a percent or three percent or five, you know, some number. It's usually pretty small. Probably in a venture backed company, you'll probably be like …”