You can continue that line of reasoning: there is surely an equally competent and hard working engineer in some large company, or Europe, that for the same 4 ye

You can continue that line of reasoning: there is surely an equally competent and hard working engineer in some large company, or Europe, that for the same 4 years got $0 extra on top of inflationary increases. You got $6M - how much should you redistribute among those competent developers to make it fair? Maybe you took some risks, maybe you didn’t. Maybe the founders took more, maybe they didn’t. But at some level, if neither engineer showed up for work, the world would be largely the same. If the founders didn’t act as prime movers at a critical inflection point, there would’ve been one fewer IPO and a lot less value creation for everyone to try to split up.