I don't really understand why people put themselves through that stress without getting a personal equally high payout. I mean, the stress he faced was pretty m

I don't really understand why people put themselves through that stress without getting a personal equally high payout. I mean, the stress he faced was pretty much as big as the ones startup founders face. But startup founders have a chance to end up rich or with a much bigger business. What could he gain from it? A bonus? And as a side note: If the text about his work sounds like your work, you can gain a lot of more performance, fun and results if you spend some of your time learning more indepth how everything about your job works. The debugging drudges become less once you know enough. And not all of it can be learned just by doing.