I was just asking myself this question, so I googled the question and here I am :D I think the reason is the advertising. Pieter built cult like following, he h

I was just asking myself this question, so I googled the question and here I am :D I think the reason is the advertising. Pieter built cult like following, he has 600k+ subs on twitter, so "AI" startups see it as a good advertisment opportunity. There is also too much money betting on these startups, so 30k is peanuts for them. Just the other day I read about a guy that discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Todesktop's CD app. Todesktop awarded hacker with only 5k$. Once news got out, Cursor (AI startup) awarded the hacker 50k$. Peanuts.