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Why is the CEO pulling a salary at all? Or are they not the founder and were brought in?

Founders just take the bare minimum to survive, anything else is just irresponsible.

Ha, at a YC backed startup I was at the entire C-suite (which had the two original founders) took a pay bump to $240k+ in less than one year of operation (was not anywhere near cashflow positive) on top of whatever multiple full percentages of stock they held (and assume the founders stock was better than the employee pool. I asked a few times to see the cap table, even redacted, and they refused).

I left so I don't know how much they are paying themselves now...

The startup space is rife with people just looking for a job.

They are a founder with equity. Why? Because they need to support like six kids and their wife doesn't work.

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