Appropriate equity share for founding team?
dasht: I'm not sure there is any good answer to your question but I noticed something about how you phrased it.   You DID NOT say "a killer opportunity to get filthy rich".  You DID say "a killer opportunity to buck the cog-in-a-wheel machine".Doesn't that answer your question?  If you accept too small a stake, you will have no power of strategic influence over the firm - you will be a cog in a high-risk firm's machine.Why isn't your "ask" here "parity with the founders"?