> I just fail to see why everyone in the comments here believes they deserve to be compensated at the level of the top 0.01% of all people without starting thei

> I just fail to see why everyone in the comments here believes they deserve to be compensated at the level of the top 0.01% of all people without starting their own business. No one is saying this. There is no question that the Windsurf and Scale AI ploys effectively left employees with ownership in the company high and dry. > but how much do you think you deserve as an employee You deserve what you are promised. If a founder says you will get rich if the company goes to the moon, and they instead do some strange maneuver so only they cash out, the founder is a scumbag. You are acting like early startup employees risk nothing working for a startup, and invest nothing of their own. Again, that is a weird assumption.