There's an argument to be made that you want someone incentivized by something rational like compensation. If your critical employees joined the company for ro

There's an argument to be made that you want someone incentivized by something rational like compensation. If your critical employees joined the company for romantic and/or emotional reasons, it can be very difficult to retain them should they somehow become disillusioned. You can far more easily acquire funding to increase compensation than you can make someone change their mind about how they feel about something the leadership has done or the direction the company is heading.