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You almost always get nothing unless your startup IPOs, which historically is about ~0.01% of all seed-funded startups.

Even if the company sells privately, which does happen quite often, there's a liquidation preference so that investors usually get all of the money, leaving nothing for founders or employees.

Someone posted an excellent example of it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358531




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