I remember reading that this is a huge problem for companies in the "self-driving" space. There's a lot of competition for this skillset, so you have to keep o

I remember reading that this is a huge problem for companies in the "self-driving" space. There's a lot of competition for this skillset, so you have to keep on giving more to the engineers... but then they have a bunch of money and they have less lock-in for the job. When you have $20 million in a bank account, why are you going to go make a powerpoint for your manager? But if you give them "options" that might be worth nothing... well why not just go to Uber with their millions of Actual Real Cash(TM)? Or why accept "founder" salaries instead of real salaries? Not that there's anything wrong with this, but the classic employer/employee relationship starts falling apart when the employees end up being this value.