If you have such a good team, which arguably developed many features that also ended up being part of the VMWare Server product, and in fact bootstrapped the co

If you have such a good team, which arguably developed many features that also ended up being part of the VMWare Server product, and in fact bootstrapped the company itself, then you pivot your product and keep the team, not the other way around. Or I may be wrong and established companies should play by different rules than startups regarding their more productive teams, because it's more cost effective.