Yes, but you also need quality of life. I've been in a startup where the product was so cool that we'd get people working for nothing but options because they

Yes, but you also need quality of life. I've been in a startup where the product was so cool that we'd get people working for nothing but options because they were too burned out by $MEGACORP developer culture. The money developers were leaving was so ridiculous I figure we could have charged people to work for us and we'd still have gotten more applications than we knew what to do with.