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by AndrewKemendo 1061 days ago
Guess which one thinking short term can hurt the other?

I’d agree if there was any semblance of a power balance or history of successful outcomes for the vast majority over the long term.

All people point to are the infinitely rare (over represented here by multiples) first few employees of a huge start up - and even that is getting rarer for anything but the first 100 employees at most.

When was the last big employee millionaire event like Microsoft or Google or Amazon - over 20 years ago for all but Google (19)? That’s an entire career.

I don’t recall a wave of new millionaires from Snap, AirBnB or Uber IPO in the same way. Maybe I’m totally wrong here and just missing these groups - seems all the spoils went to the VCs.