Given the financial acumen and street smarts involved, it almost sounds as if there&#x27;s a possible role for someone acting as an agent for potential startup employees: not an employment agency which gets a lump sum when an employer fills a vacancy, but a talent agent getting something like the traditional ten percent, or two-and-twenty, or whatever, of the employee&#x27;s ongoing earnings. Not that dealing with talent agents is always a wonderful experience either, of course...