[scarface74]

If you don’t trust or respect the CEO you leave.

Could any other CEO have come into Apple in 1997 and done what Jobs did? They respected Jobs more than they would have a generic CEO.

Heck didn’t the Pandora CEO convince people to work for two years with no pay?

A number of us stayed at a startup until the bitter end because the leadership was completely honest with us and the investors promised to pay us for every hour we worked.