I&#x27;m confused. Employees and founders get a salary. There is no risk to them. If the company fails the investors lose millions of dollars, the founders and employees leave with 1-2-3 years of salary in their pockets and then go get another job.<p>That is why investors get paid first. Am I missing something? I guess I don&#x27;t understand where this idea that founders and employees should get paid first. In guessing because the did the work but they seem to be forgetting they also got paid for the work. As a startup it might have been less than some other jobs, in compensation they took some tiny tiny risk that if the company is successful they get a taste. But they risk is orders of magnitude less than the investors.<p>Sorry if I&#x27;m not understanding