This is an exemplary reason to not work for a startup. Cash is king - never work for free or let some overzealous founder (who has tons of equity and is ok wor

This is an exemplary reason to not work for a startup. Cash is king - never work for free or let some overzealous founder (who has tons of equity and is ok working for poverty wages) try to encourage you to work longer or harder "because equity go up one day". The founders of Windsurf are clearly horrible people and the fact they were DM'ing people on twitter trying to explain being awful people really reflects the current state of the valley. Garry Tan even deleted a comment on this tweet where to Windsurf employee #2 he said "looks like you left $20M on the table". These people see employees as replaceable widgets and to them this is just a game build around the "excitement of building". Legitimately F*CK these people.