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Wow. Why in the world would you post this as a founder? It's like saying, "Watch out, anyone who works for Earbits, I'm a big fan of screwing people out of opti

• kls 15y ago
  In his defense he has been pretty consistent on the, we are being one sided on this, which HN can do, we have a strong technical co-founder/first employee bias, we see a lot of I got screwed on options stories and many of us have been thorough it. His viewpoint is that from a purely logic standpoint, the contract allows for this behavior, he has said that he is not weighing in on the morals of it, but that the contract allows for it and that the employee has earned some but not all of the agreed upon compensation. Given that it was agreed to in the future, that according to the contract (not morality) that the company can do so. The funny part is I tend to agree with the owner/founder point of view 80% of the time, but not on this one, I have stated that I am probably biased because I have been thorough my obligatory get screwed on an options dues.