&gt; I&#x27;m surprised by the support you&#x27;re getting, because the HN hivemind fully supports it when founders exit with 50-10000x what rank and file gets.<p>The HN Hivemind that I&#x27;ve witnessed as of the last 18 months or so is decidedly supportive of founders giving up much much more equity to employees, owing to ease of fundraising and low capital startup costs, combining to derisk the once very personally risky endeavor of starting a company.<p>In that sense the hivemind currently loosely follows the words of Sam Altman who is the present overmind of YC, so it is rather apt.