Social contract for getting rich as an early startup employee: destroyed

Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal

The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money

Jordi Hays

Social contract for getting rich as an early startup employee: destroyed


https://x.com/jordihays/status/1944200891944644997

Defi. Ethereum. Physics.

Data at @quotient.

There’s nothing comparable +EV to being physically located in Silicon Valley as an employee. There are exceptions elsewhere, but much less frequent.

It depends. @dwr.eth started at Coinbase around the same time I started at a crypto startup. It arguably worked out for him in terms of equity. For me it didn't. So there is some luck/skill component to having founders/board who you can trust to not screw the employees

100 $tipn

Yeah the good days are over, and its arguable if they ever really were that good to begin with.