"I can tell you our first hire was next in line for a cushy market job, and he was being actively poached, not us." Was this really your experience? Mine has b

"I can tell you our first hire was next in line for a cushy market job, and he was being actively poached, not us." Was this really your experience? Mine has been that if you had to move on to a cushy market job you would have gotten a much better one than your employees. Founders are rarely actively poached but that's only because everyone assumes the attempt would fail.