Are you talking in general, or for very early employees? My understanding is that a 1-year cliff is standard (with monthly vesting after that). That's what everyone (including employee #1) got at a startup I worked for. (Of course I'd never consider that company a good example to follow wrt to treating employees with respect.)
If it's customary at least for early employees to get better terms, that'd be (awesome) news to me.
Early hires should rather be focusing on career perspectives given the chance of the growth of the company they're working for.