[thesmallestcat]

Critical hit! I didn't realize that cancer patients and the starving were part of this discussion of Soundcloud's layoffs. I will go lick my wounds and perform the required penance of reading five PG essays for suggesting that CEOs have it relatively easy.

[flyinglizard]

Do you suggest that being a CEO is an easy job - let alone of a company in the situation of SoundCloud?

[buchhalter]

This specific CEO had a reasonably easy job/life/career:

http://www.businessinsider.com/life-of-soundcloud-founder-ce...

Both him and his cofounder are paper rich from Angel investments they made (they just got a massive windfall with the IPO of Delivery Hero), by the way, so I'm sure they'll do just fine.