The Windsurf and Scale deals underscore a fragile reality for startup employees

The employee bears a risk, and joins a new company, in many cases, she does not have proven revenues or a safe future. They join the task, the opportunity to occupy a seat on a potential rocket ship, and work with a founder or group of founders who think they are exceptional. Of course, they join the upward trend – the belief that the shares in the company they take as part of their compensation will actually be something in the end, and that the founders who risked their amazement in order to call for the largest possible number of their members in the event of an exit.

“If this social volume fails, the entire system fails,” said Daniel Dart, the founder of Rock Yard Vetshers.

This social contract was under pressure in the last days and weeks, as obtaining billions of dollars take the executives and founders away from the companies that they settled-which exceeded companies with unspecified future contracts and in many cases hundreds of employees or more. We have seen two prominent cases in the fast caliphate: the Meta deal amounting to $ 14 billion for 49 % of AI, which transferred the CEO of the scale and founder Alex Wang to Meta, and has gained Google worth $ 2.4 billion from Windsurf, a deal that left many employees behind – which will soon witness the remains of their company that were obtained through perception.

People feel crazy in size, certainly – the company that has been delivered about 200 employees this week – but people really feel upset about Windsurf, a deal that excluded about 250 employees, which enhances concerns not only about property rights (in all senses of the word) but what this means about the relationship between the founders and their employees.

Dart said: “I think the successive successive effect of this type of position is that in reality it will change what these early talks are with employees of startups,” Dart said.

To the CEO of amplituds and the founder of Speenser Skats – who recently conducted acquisitions and acquisitions – the Windsurf deal is terrible. It is similar to her with a ship abandoned by the captain, and compared the situation to Francesco Chitino, who fled in 2012 from the transferred Costa Concordia, leaving behind passengers and crew. 32 people died in the disaster. Skats says that accidents like Windsurf shows why employees are more important than ever that employees think hard in the founder who throws them.

“I think the employees should ask the CEO and the founders directly: Will you leave? From madness you have to do so.” “But I believe that the personality and integrity of the founders are more important than ever.”

I asked Henry Shi, the founder of Super.com, if the startup staff will start thinking differently about their employment terms as deals like this happening frequently.

“Yes, but unfortunately, I am not sure if they have many options or leverage,” Xi wrote. “Especially given the market dynamics between employment and capital as we approach the economic AGI, the first employees may not enjoy this amount of influence – with the exception of the start of their private companies.”

Because fairness is what the founder makes.

David Shaim, CEO and founder of reading, said. In fact, we have seen deals from this number before, from getting Microsoft from the reflection to Amazon’s Adept. In the end, the fact that social media was severe, as it may actually be a good thing for start -up employees. This means that people still want to benefit the economy of all the participants.

Given that anti -monopoly organizers do not seem to be prepared for the police of these types of deals any time soon, the general reaction may actually be one of the few handrails.

“What we saw with the Windsurf deal was the ecosystem in weapons about fairness of employees, which should create some feeling of comfort,” said Yuhai Nakagima, the general partner in the unused capital. “Although the dismantling of companies is not necessarily bad, it is important for everyone to get their fair share – especially if these types of deals continue, I hope to see more criteria on how to treat them.”

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Money + funds of money

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the people

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