Nobody who writes a comment like that wants to know why they’re wrong. “Money people bad” is their mantra. You’ll never change it, they’ve swallowed too much propaganda.
Is that supposed to mean something? Half of Hacker News is a startup CEO.
By your own logic, you better pay yourself a $0 salary, $0 on secondaries, and invested all your personal savings into the project, because otherwise clearly you don't believe in your own company. Right? And I hope that is also true about every one of your employees?
Haha, yeah I’m still a CEO of a YC-backed company too. I wouldn’t use it as evidence of anything except that I’m capable of having a company not go bankrupt for 17 years. (Man typing that makes me feel old.)
CEOs of tech companies fall for the anti-capitalist propaganda as much as anyone, in fact maybe more. There’s always been a far-left political lean to tech. Which hey, whatever floats your boat.
Seven years in business. Number of staff varies with the environment but we've had as many as 40 on all hands, mostly part-timers with specialised skills.
It's not a very ordinary company. Too many lawyers.
