Or that the employees might have changing life circumstances any time in the 10-15 year future. Find a partner that changes your life needs around working life

Or that the employees might have changing life circumstances any time in the 10-15 year future. Find a partner that changes your life needs around working life or living location, have a kid, need more or different housing, have medical issues, have family with medical issues, etc and you're sol. ps -- a16z funded a company that, as an A round, refused to disclose outstanding shares to value my option grant and was already on the brute force 15% of comp is bonus that you don't get if you aren't there in early April every year retention ("bonus") plan. It may be unjustified, but with some other stories I'm not a liberty to disclose, they seem very employee unfriendly.