If your employees/co-founders have a side gig, it's a sign that your company isn't paying them enough and doesn't offer them enough opportunity. If you were tru

If your employees/co-founders have a side gig, it's a sign that your company isn't paying them enough and doesn't offer them enough opportunity. If you were truly a great company, they'd see that you really were the next $10-100B firm and they'd be doing 16x7+++. Or that you were such a huge branding exercise that without immediate equity prospect that the 16x7 was worth it for them. Oh, your segment isn't that interesting? Oh you're actually probably not going to make payroll on Friday? Actually, your employees "side-gig" is called a lifeline: something to talk about in interviews that's rather more pleasant than your crash and burn and a project that has a rather longer life expectancy. If you want your employees FULL attention, EARN IT.