You want to work at a startup? Don’t lead with this kind of email. ⚠️ It's absolutely fair to ask about salary and equity. But if that's your first message to the hiring manager, it signals that compensation is your top priority, not the problem, vision or the work. And if that's the case, you probably won’t survive the early-stage startup grind. Compensation along will never be enough to carry you through the ambiguity, the late nights, the pivots. Early-stage startups are bets. And people betting on something big don't lead with “what’s in it for me?” View original post on LinkedIn.