>> I worked for one startup which got bought. The founders made money. All of the employees lost money. I think this is far more common than you'd think. Take

>> I worked for one startup which got bought. The founders made money. All of the employees lost money. I think this is far more common than you'd think. Take YC for example. I'd be really curious to compare SamA's outcome vs. employee #5's outcome (for example). Even when companies "fail", founders do just fine for themselves via acquihire, and it's generally not tied to their stock (acquirer values stock at $0, pays off investors, employees get retention bonuses of ~$50-100k over 4 years, founders get quite a bit more than that).