"I'm not sure what you're basing your statements on. But it sounds like you've gotten a very bad deal in the past. Or, you've had no deals in the past...."
Well, okay, if we're going to make ASSumptions:
Maybe you're just sensitive to this situation because you are ALSO trying to get some poor schmuck to take 2% equity and no salary to implement YOUR big business idea, which is all you have to contribute to the venture? Or maybe you're a hacker that took 2% equity for implementing someone else's idea and you're trying to rationalize your empyty bank account and minimize the cognitive dissonance for yourself?
I'm going to ASSume there is something in YOUR past that makes you unable to hear the fire alarm bells and see what a bad freaking deal the OP is being offered.
Well, okay, if we're going to make ASSumptions:
Maybe you're just sensitive to this situation because you are ALSO trying to get some poor schmuck to take 2% equity and no salary to implement YOUR big business idea, which is all you have to contribute to the venture? Or maybe you're a hacker that took 2% equity for implementing someone else's idea and you're trying to rationalize your empyty bank account and minimize the cognitive dissonance for yourself?
I'm going to ASSume there is something in YOUR past that makes you unable to hear the fire alarm bells and see what a bad freaking deal the OP is being offered.