You avoided the actual issue. This isn't about founders. This is about engineers. Engineers aren't the ones getting the million dollar payout (if the startup lottery is in even in their favor). This is about engineers looking for work. The people founders need to pay a salary to. There haven't been million dollar payouts for engineers in a long time. The complaint is that founders continue to peddle the fantasy that engineers should remain underpaid because they might win big at some later date, in an effort to keep salaries low. That's a shame.