[jasonkester]

This is the reason you work for a startup in the first place. It's a gig where you get to play with cool tech and VC money, then get spit out sideways onto the job market when they invariably have to lay off the whole team. The "consequence" is that you get a free pass to look for another gig that pays better without the stigma of having job hopped.

Startups, from an employee standpoint, are not about getting rich off of the company succeeding. That won't happen. They're about building your skills in a fun environment, socking away as much cash as possible along the way, and leveling up your value by burning through a bunch of fun, hopeless companies in a short period of time.

The fact that it took this one 4 years to cycle itself is actually the only downside I can see here. Everything else is what you signed up for (whether you realized you were signing up for it or not).

Now go out and double your salary.