Not too long ago, myself and many other long time employees left our startup after a SPAC announcement. As an individual contributor, I kind of felt insulted th

Not too long ago, myself and many other long time employees left our startup after a SPAC announcement. As an individual contributor, I kind of felt insulted that I was expected to not really get what was happening. Upper management put on a celebration and equated it to an IPO. If they had come out and said, “we are out of money and options, so this is what we’re doing”, I might have been more inclined to stay. It sometimes amazes me the kind of obtuse missteps so called “business people” will make. They effectively drained all their experienced engineers in one fell swoop. Expect that the people you want to keep are paying attention, and you’re not going to pull a fast one on them. Seems pretty simple to me.