For job seekers, especially those in the early-stage startup world…

What are your founder/founding team 🚩 red flags?

/product-design | startup advisor | casting in /meesh | prev. @ reddit, okta (personal), lilblockparty.wtf, common.xyz, etc.

Founders with low emotional intelligence. I’ll invest in them, but I won’t work for them. That’s asking for misery.

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) /animeoutcasts
Unofficial Hambassasor |General of the North 

/kyoto /sakura  /anime-manga

https://beacons.ai/pi_chi

Narcissistic and low EQ folks tend to make a lot of money because they don’t care who they step on to get there. Would never work for them, but boy do they return money.

Product at Popular Science and Futurism. 
Have literal skin in the game on /nonanon

@meesh will confirm that I’ve said for years that the main reason I’d want to be a CEO would be to walk on stage at every All-Hands to The Imperial March

Negotiate for preferred shares. You are going to work 10 years worth of hours and effort in the next 3 years. You must believe the team can make it, can manage their runway, and that you can work under those conditions without losing your sanity. You will also get your hands dirty. You won’t have minions to do it. You are the minion. High risk, high reward. It’s okay if it’s not for you. No shame in a Fortune 500 9-5 ;)

As both an investor and le great @pichi, do you have any words of wisdom for job seekers in early-stage spaces?