raagulanpathy(@raagulanpathy):When I joined Zoom, I tried to go the lowest salary/commision split I could get. I asked for 20/80 or 30/70. They would only do 50/50, still lower than most people 60/40 or 70/30. People with conviction are wired differently.

2026.10.27 00:13

When I joined Zoom, I tried to go the lowest salary/commision split I could get. I asked for 20/80 or 30/70. They would only do 50/50, still lower than most people 60/40 or 70/30. People with conviction are wired differently.

Alan Chang@alanchanguk

2026.10.26 17:24

In 2018 I tried to cut my Revolut salary to £0. I’d just been promoted to VP. We’d just closed Series C. 3 years in, I had full conviction Revolut would become a $1T company. I didn’t want cash. I wanted shares. My general counsel wouldn’t let me go below minimum wage. It was against the law. So I took minimum wage and the rest in equity. I had ~£20k in the bank from university side hustles. I built a simple runway model and I had about two years before I went broke. LFG. So I rented a 300 sq ft studio five minutes from the office and ate free company food to keep costs down. Today those shares are worth $10M+.