Yes, millions are a much bigger temptation, but you still have a choice. In the hand, either they decided those companies where matching their ethics, or they gave up on ethics for money.
Given our entreprenarial culture, is that surprising ?
It is possible. Not saying it's easy, but it's still a choice.
The we still make the choice to give the bullies more power in the end.
Yet it is still a choice. It's just a question of how much your values are worth.
This isn't an aberration; it's the goal. Startup companies are group-funded technology incubators that, if they succeed, are consumed by larger technology holding and aggregation companies.
(I used to share an office building with Eero's early team. They seemed nice.)
I'm saying it's still a choice.
We, sadly, prefer one option to the other.
Or maybe there is a third option we don't see.
This is the flow of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem.