Because tech workers are well-compensated, and can pretty easily move themselves around on a risk/reward tradeoff, and also pretty finely tune an effort/payout

Because tech workers are well-compensated, and can pretty easily move themselves around on a risk/reward tradeoff, and also pretty finely tune an effort/payout tradeoff. And because co-ops are probably at least an order of magnitude less likely to produce a $10million+ payout after 5-10 years than a startup is.