Having no legal presence is not a non sequitur. Employees in other countries know that it's a lot harder to engage council to enforce employment agreements or ip agreements from a whole other country. It definitely adds risk.
> It definitely adds risk
From other comments such as badpun's [0] and ohadron's [1], along with yours, it looks like this is all boiling down to risk + unknowns vs reward.
I wonder if we can make the unknown unknowns easier to manage so that it mitigates the risks involved somehow.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997059 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997049