Ordinarily I would agree with you, but if https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/signal-foundation https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/signal-foundation is

Ordinarily I would agree with you, but if https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/signal-foundation https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/signal-foundation is to be believed, it's hard to see the "promotion track" in a 10 person foundation