Stories like this reduce the value of stock for all companies who issue it - most with good intentions - and leave our community morally poorer.
So what if a chef in an early stage team made out with $20M later - an army marches on it's stomach - he probably contributed more to delivery than some of the management team at the time.
Even if the chef didn’t contribute as much as others who took home M$20, is Pincus is really claiming that: “We don’t want to make the mistakes Google made: Look how badly things turned out for them!”
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Somehow, that doesn’t seem like his best work as a CEO...
So what if a chef in an early stage team made out with $20M later - an army marches on it's stomach - he probably contributed more to delivery than some of the management team at the time.