It astounds me that you think people are entirely motivated by money and that social policy will have no bearing on those who have the best career prospects. C

It astounds me that you think people are entirely motivated by money and that social policy will have no bearing on those who have the best career prospects. Companies and their cultures are not equivalent. Many of those people will have joined Basecamp because of the culture and the mission. They will have joined for reasons other than money. Many of them could have got jobs at FAANGs but didn't because they believed this culture was a better fit for them. You have no data on why people left, you only have guesses you're trying to turn into data. Many of the replies to your comment are equally of the hand wavey "see, social policy isn't the thing here" type, when social policy is absolutely 100% the thing here. I've never seen such a disappointing thread on HN as this one.