[logicallee]

you don't quit a startup job - the startup job quits you.

Like, literally, the way a startup is supposed to be set up is that either it takes off, or the whole vehicle crumbles around you and you are left sitting on the pavement while the remains of the startup you worked at are strewn around you. Then you get up and get in a different car, and hopefully it gets up to speed rather than disintegrate again.

Like, this is the structure all startups are supposed to have. If you don't like it, get in a real company. nobody makes you work for a startup. it's also why you get equity in case the car gets up to speed.

[derefr]

That's how bootstrapped startups work. Bootstrapped startups have wonderfully aligned incentives that way—there's only as much cash as there is traction, and it will run out the moment you do anything stupid.

VC startups, on the other hand, can chug along "on fumes" for years, neither gaining traction nor running out of money, every once in a while doing a new investment round or merging with some other zombie startup.

[npizzolato]

That's a nice story for what startups should be for the founders, but not for regular employees.