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That someone would be "taken aback" by someone asking whether the air castles you're painting pictures of are literally worthless says a lot about this whole scene.

> The candidate presumably “worked somewhere where he discovered that these things matter,” says the founder, who asked not to be named in this story.

i.e., someone else screwed this guy before you got to him.

> “There are just so many complications involved” in sharing the nitty gritty of [how the employee is going to be paid last, if at all] in the event of a sale or a public offering. “We’re still thinking through all these things.”

Yeah, I bet you are.