> Says who? Srsly stop working for shitty startups. I don't work for "shitty startups"--it's rare that I work for "startups" at all. But, then again, my skills

> Says who? Srsly stop working for shitty startups. I don't work for "shitty startups"--it's rare that I work for "startups" at all. But, then again, my skillset is in demand in a way that accentuates the seller's market, and so I also don't have to. I'm very fortunate. > And stop assuming all founders are exploitative psychopaths. We're not. ... You don't need to overwork the team for that. You don't have to. But, as a matter of course, it happens. Even to those with the best of intentions. Causes and passions are charity work or open-source work. Tying your day job--and by extension your health and your well-being--to them is not wise. As a founder, you both have an incentive to tie your own to such--but you have an even stronger incentive to tie others' to it, and so you literally can't be trusted. It's nothing personal to state that founders are not to be trusted. It is, in a very real and literal sense, just business. Cash on the barrelhead and an absolute intolerance for fuckery are the only ways an employee has to protect themselves from exploitation.