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In the Zoox case, the founders allegedly subverted the rightful 1Ms payout of the early employees. You sound like a trusthworthy person, but there are so many other cases of this happening besides Zoox, and it's very difficult to predict peoples' moral reactions to life-changing amounts of money ahead-of-time. At the end of the day, it's up to the CEO to make sure everyone gets treated fairly.

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Good point. I hope I get the opportunity to test this hypothesis, but right now I can't imagine that mattering to me. I've made decisions recently where my thought process literally was, "Ok so if we win big, I'll have a slightly smaller yacht." It's not that hard to treat your people well.

I fully recognize it's easy to say now, and I hope I stick to it when given the chance.

More interesting than currently easy promises is: how do you interview the founders to maximize the chance that they're not greedy assholes?

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