These management types drive me insane. If a founder tries to talk to me about merit and risk when trying to recruit me into their bubbly hype-machine, they can

These management types drive me insane. If a founder tries to talk to me about merit and risk when trying to recruit me into their bubbly hype-machine, they can be sure I won't be calling back. I've seen plenty of startups that were going great until they crashed suddenly and catastrophically. Moreover, company founders are often quite secretive with employees when it comes to company finances - So in reality, to an employee, the company often just looks like a black box. Employees have to take a risk not only based on the business model, but also on the integrity of the founders because of the information asymmetry. Plus, if it doesn't work out, the founders will typically have better job prospects than the employees because they can put 'CEO' or 'CTO' on their resume.