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So then your answer is no, because then the venture owners don't own the company.

I didn't realize your comment exclusively pertained to venture owners. Even so a venture owner could sell the company to the employees and move on to their next big thing.

You're right that it's something a venture owner could do.

But then, you'd be surprised at how many highly-compensated programmers never bother to exercise their options. The same ones who then go on Hacker News and complain about bad treatment of workers, and how if only they owned the companies.

I not only complain about how workers are treated, I'm also active in the political process to effect social change for workers. I've also exercised all of the options I've vested at the startup where I'm employed.

Careful with them broad strokes Tex.

> But then, you'd be surprised at how many highly-compensated programmers never bother to exercise their options. The same ones who then go on Hacker News and complain about bad treatment of workers, and how if only they owned the companies.

This reads like an oddly specific claim -- do you have examples?

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