Passion is wonderful; I'd just like to point out a 2nd or 3rd order effect: often a startup starts up and everybody is passionate, but with growth some new hire

Passion is wonderful; I'd just like to point out a 2nd or 3rd order effect: often a startup starts up and everybody is passionate, but with growth some new hires are less passionate than others. The situation to avoid is having an ipo where very passionate people discover more mercenary people had much higher option allocations.