Not sure how good an exit it was. Crunchbase says they have fewer than 50 employees [0], so I'm guessing the first 10 people did pretty well but that the rest g

Not sure how good an exit it was. Crunchbase says they have fewer than 50 employees [0], so I'm guessing the first 10 people did pretty well but that the rest got what amounts to a nice bonus. Keeping the lights on long enough makes this kind of exit more likely. Paul Graham has a good article about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html NPM did better than "just" keeping the lights on, though. They even held Yarn at bay by adopting its best features very quickly. [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/npm https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/npm