This sounds much like the situation Paul Buchheit found himself in as Google employee #23. He wrote a blog post [1] on this topic back in 2010, in response to

This sounds much like the situation Paul Buchheit found himself in as Google employee #23. He wrote a blog post [1] on this topic back in 2010, in response to a HN thread just like this. Note that the post is no longer available on his own blog, so as you're reading it, try to read them as the words of a 2010 version of Buchheit, not a present-day one, as it seems that for whatever reason, he doesn't want this post attributed to his present-day self. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180119114049/http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com:80/2010/05/what-to-do-with-your-millions.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180119114049/http://paulbuchhe...