Given that the venture will fail anyways, it's always better to figure this out sooner rather than later. Like, take the money that would have been spent on sal

Given that the venture will fail anyways, it's always better to figure this out sooner rather than later. Like, take the money that would have been spent on salary for those extra weeks, and pay it out as severance. There's arguments to be made for stretching things out if it means funds get spent as salary rather than paying things back to investors, but this is an allocational waste (employees do work for no real benefit) for a distributive gain (employees get money rather than investors).