Yeah. I've worked at a company where I was middling employee 250 but had the same number of options as important employee 8 simply because I was bros with the founder. I think hackers think the non-technical side of the business is going to be merit based and "fair" but that's generally not the case in my experience.
The difference here was 5-figures for the technical types who'd been there for years vs 7-figures or more for business types who'd been there for months. If nothing else it was a real eye opener into how the world really worked. Not that I'd had any illusions that I was going to retire there and then, mind. But still.
I believe they were "bros" with the VCs rather than the founders, tho'. The founders didn't do too badly but today, they aren't retired either...
