[bsder]

> This isn't shady, it's so the founding team stops worrying about money and focuses full-time on the company.

Uh, no. It's so that the founders won't sell the company at a mere 4-5x rather than then 20-100x that the VC's want.

If it was genuinely about the company, they'd let all the initial people take some stock off the table. Instead they only allow the people who could sell the company to take stock off the table.

Big difference.