I agree. A huge corporation also has the structure in place in all levels that makes a programmer profitable from the beginning. When starting a startup, you n

I agree. A huge corporation also has the structure in place in all levels that makes a programmer profitable from the beginning. When starting a startup, you need to build that structure from scratch - from the marketing, to the sales process, to the scalability, support, hiring, etc. The reason why most employees think they're more than they're worth is because they don't see all the things that happened before they were hired, and all the things that happens behind the scenes that makes their specific tasks valuable to the company.