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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

	from __future__ import print_function

	from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
	mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True)

	import tensorflow as tf

	def weight_variable(shape):
	initial = tf.truncated_normal(shape, stddev=0.1)
	return tf.Variable(initial)