Because of a desire to avoid "long nights, excessive meetings" even at an hourly rate. Not all salaried positions are nights-and-weekends affairs. ETA: Rereadi

Because of a desire to avoid "long nights, excessive meetings" even at an hourly rate. Not all salaried positions are nights-and-weekends affairs. ETA: Rereading, it looks like the article implicitly adds "at a SF startup" after "full-timed, salaried positions". Maybe those positions always involve crazy hours.