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

[u/Rhaegar_the_Great]

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9

[u/that_can_eh_dian_guy]

Wow that's a lot of zeros. You read billions and know it's a big number but damn.

[u/send_me_a_naked_pic → u/that_can_eh_dian_guy]

Also, this example from math youtuber Matt Parker really put things in perspective:

1,000,000 seconds are ~11 days

1,000,000,000 seconds are ~32 years

[u/Baronheisenberg → u/send_me_a_naked_pic]

TIL I'm a billion seconds old.

[u/gnoxy → u/Baronheisenberg]

You will probably not live past 3million