[nilkn]

I think you're assuming that the employees were making large professional and financial sacrifices to work at Box. Considering the size of the company and the amount of funding, they most likely weren't. A random $200k payoff on top of a market competitive salary and benefits package is nothing to sneeze at. A job is not a scam just because it doesn't make you a multimillionaire over night.

[pyrrhotech]

I know nothing about Box, so perhaps the people working there were paid market rate and worked normal hours. If so, I take back my comment.

[benched]

Don't y'all know? If an individual receives a certain payout, we can reason backwards about the amount of risk they must have shouldered based on the amount!

(My apologies, nilkn, this isn't aimed at you. I object to the near-religious startup belief that risk = reward. Real life is so much less supervised than that. :) )