If it’s 8 hour workdays and 5 days a week, at $100/hour that’s 8 * 10 * 100 = $8k. No, you could not pay me $8k to stop working on the LW team for 2 weeks.
I’m kind of confused right now. At a mere $15k, you could probably get a pretty good software engineer to work for a month on any altruistic project you wish. I’m genuinely curious about why you think your work is so irreplaceable (and I’m not saying it isn’t!).
You could certainly hire a good software engineer at that salary, but I don’t think you could give them a vision and network and trust them to be autonomous. Money isn’t the bottleneck there. Just because you have the funding to hire someone for a role doesn’t mean you can. Hiring is incredibly difficult. Go see YC on hiring, or PG.
Most founding startup people are worth way more than their salary.
If it’s 8 hour workdays and 5 days a week, at $100/hour that’s 8 * 10 * 100 = $8k. No, you could not pay me $8k to stop working on the LW team for 2 weeks.
I think $30k-$40k might make sense.
I’m kind of confused right now. At a mere $15k, you could probably get a pretty good software engineer to work for a month on any altruistic project you wish. I’m genuinely curious about why you think your work is so irreplaceable (and I’m not saying it isn’t!).
You could certainly hire a good software engineer at that salary, but I don’t think you could give them a vision and network and trust them to be autonomous. Money isn’t the bottleneck there. Just because you have the funding to hire someone for a role doesn’t mean you can. Hiring is incredibly difficult. Go see YC on hiring, or PG.
Most founding startup people are worth way more than their salary.