Couldn't agree more. If part of my compensation is equity, then I should get to keep it when I depart. If I don't, you're basically telling me I wasn't worth th

Couldn't agree more. If part of my compensation is equity, then I should get to keep it when I depart. If I don't, you're basically telling me I wasn't worth the compensation I was getting. Taking back shares is akin to a temper tantrum, and Scott's post really, really shows no respect for the engineers that make his companies worth any money at all. It also hyper-values people who can flog a Power Point presentation, whether or not those people end up contributing the lion's share of the engineering. It's a rather bald-faced admission of how employees are actually valued, and how distasteful compensating them is.