对创始工程师职位感到矛盾
标题已经说明了一切。我目前在一家大型科技公司工作，拥有2.5年的工作经验，年薪为25万美元。我非常喜欢我的工作与生活平衡，并且有机会参与许多不同的副业。
最近，我收到了一个食品行业垂直SAAS公司的创始工程师（第一位员工）的邀请。薪资为16万美元，外加3%的股权。需要注意的是，我将是第一位技术员工，两个联合创始人都没有技术背景。
这两位联合创始人确实非常出色，看起来也很聪明。其中一位在这个领域有很多人脉，因此他们能够接触到客户。该公司目前尚未产生收入和产品，已经筹集了300万美元的种子资金，估值为1000万美元。
如果我加入的话，实际上我将承担技术联合创始人的工作，但获得的回报却微乎其微。
我对此感到非常矛盾。一方面，我渴望进入创业领域，我最终想要自己创业，这可能是一个建立更好人脉的跳板（我觉得我目前的人脉不足），而且如果有哪个时刻可以承担风险，那就是现在。
另一方面，我觉得我在这里得到的交易非常糟糕，我将构建整个产品，却几乎得不到任何回报。只有在这个公司在5到6年内实现1亿美元的退出时，财务状况才有意义，但考虑到人工智能的发展，我甚至不确定SAAS在未来几年是否仍然是一个可行的商业模式。
有没有人做过类似的决定？回头看，你是否为自己的决定感到高兴？你会改变什么吗？
简而言之：一名大型科技公司的员工对成为一家没有产品的初创公司的第一位技术员工感到矛盾，希望得到曾走过这条路的人的建议。
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Title says it all. I’m currently at 2.5 YOE at big tech making 250k. I love my work life balance and get to work on a lot of different side hustles.<p>Recently, I was offered the founding engineer (#1 employee) at a vertical SAAS company in the food industry. The comp is 160k for 3% equity. The caveat is that I would be the first technical employee, both co founders are non technical.<p>The 2 co founders are genuinely very impressive and seem very smart. One of them has a lot of connections in this space so they have a way to reach customers. The company is pre revenue and pre product and raised 3M seed against 10M.<p>If I came in, I’d essentially be doing the work of a technical co founder with a fraction of the upside.<p>I’m very conflicted on this. One part of me yearns to work in the startup space, I eventually want to start my own and this could be a stepping stone in terms of getting a better network (I feel my network is currently lacking) and if there’s any time in my life where risk is not an issue it would be now.<p>On the other side, I think I’m getting a really bad deal here, I’d build out the entire product and barely get anything in return. The financials only really make sense if this company gets a 100M exit within like 5-6 years, but with how AI is progressing I’m not even sure SAAS will be a viable business model in coming years.<p>Has anyone made these types of decisions before? Looking back are you glad you made that decision? Would you change anything?<p>TLDR; big tech employee conflicted about becoming the first technical employee at a startup with no product and would like advice from others who have gone down this path.