I have read few articles that made me as angry as this one did in recent memory. Let me get this straight -- investors are complaining that entrepreneurs are o

I have read few articles that made me as angry as this one did in recent memory. Let me get this straight -- investors are complaining that entrepreneurs are outnegotiating them on liquidity terms? And their concern is that the entrepreneurs won't keep doubling down to get to a billion dollars once they have some reasonable fraction of the investor's personal net worth? It takes the arrogance of the very rich and highly dominant to complain that they're unable to keep their top employees poor enough to stay motivated. To also kvetch that they're getting outmaneuvered at what, fundamentally is one of their only advertised skills, negotiating terms-sheets, would be laughable if the tone of the article wasn't so earnest. That said, davidu raises good points here about company alignment; it is hard to watch your boss get rich if you don't. You'll probably end up hating them. One nice thing about an 'exit' is that your boss will leave, so you can hate him or her remotely. I'd say the solution is fair incentives up and down the chain in the company, a circumspect attitude to spending, and just keeping quiet about how the deals go.