That's the story of the startup I work for as well. It survived long enough to find it's niche product and then stabilized. Everyone had decent pay and great h

That's the story of the startup I work for as well. It survived long enough to find it's niche product and then stabilized. Everyone had decent pay and great hours. Eventually an exit opportunity came around and we all made some money. Parent org lets us keep maintaining and developing our niche product more or less independently. The more ambitious execs moved up into the parent org, but the rest of us remain friends working at a comfortable job.