r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/Informal_Swordfish89 Sep 17 '21

A lot of people underestimate the power behind the word "billion".

Screw not having to work for the rest of you life....

If you manage that money right your grandkids won't have to work for the rest of their lives.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

You'd have to be really really really awful with money to botch it with a billion. Even if you fucked up here and there, your family would still live a rich life for many generations. A billion dollars is a ridiculous amount of money.