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First: regular employees are already taking the risk of being jobless some time in the future when joining startups. Second: there is no CEO in tech taking a s
by whstl 1y ago
First: regular employees are already taking the risk of being jobless some time in the future when joining startups.
Second: there is no CEO in tech taking a smaller salary than their employees.
- wombat-man 1y agoWell, sure, if you can raise capital then go for it. But if I'm burning savings trying to bootstrap that is just riskier than enjoying a salary with some risk of job loss.
- jvanderbot 1y agoCounterpoint: is that because to become a CEO one most first obtain money to fund themselves and others? An employee has the opposite arrangement, they find a job to receive money. A CEO finds money to have a job.
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- smilliken 1y ago> Second: there is no CEO in tech taking a smaller salary than their employees. That's not just false but very often false.
- scubbo 1y ago> regular employees are already taking the risk of being jobless some time in the future when joining startups. Never said they weren't. But they're taking _less_ risk because they are at least taking a salary the whole time.