Yes, they own it, in exchange for protecting you from the 90% chance of failure (perhaps you should save your best ideas for when you&#x27;ve acquired enough resources to build it on your own?  I don&#x27;t, ideas are cheap, it&#x27;s the executions on those ideas that has built value for me).<p>And I don&#x27;t think startups are reckless, but I think a lot of the people that join them fail to do rudimentary financial calculations as to whether doing so has a better expected return than a safe(tm) job.<p>Otherwise, they wouldn&#x27;t accept chicken scratchings worth of lottery tickets and 20-50% lower compensation.  But yet they do, over and over, no matter how many people lay it out how bad an idea this usually is.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelochurch.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;dont-waste-your-time-in-crappy-startup-jobs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelochurch.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;dont-waste-y...</a>