[SeeDave]

I sense righteous bitterness in this post, understand that your life experiences actually happened and respect you enough to come to the conclusion that your response is completely and totally legitimate. Are you comfortable with sharing your life/entrepreneurship story as a HN, reddit, Medium, etc. post or reply to this comment? If not to "get it off your chest" and "move on" so much as to protect others?

[20yrs_no_equity]

Thanks. I am doing that, a bit at a time. I'm not actually bitter, though I think I seem bitter. I am maybe cynical. (maybe they mean the same thing in practice.) But I'm doing well, and I'm not slowing down, I've just seen startup employees get a raw deal way too many times and think the entire "startup culture" is oriented in a way that screws over employees, particularly engineers (without whom software cannot be made. While other functions are absolutely critical too, that doesn't mean the people in those other functions should work 30 hour weeks, and take home most of the payday.)

One of the reasons I'm not bitter is that the VC industry is dying. IT's not obvious yet, but like the headphone jack, its days are numbered.