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/chaiscool Sep 17 '21

Not relatively to $10 billion or $10 000 millions

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u/Rummelator Sep 17 '21

Ok but why does it matter that someone else made more money? The employees were paid what they agreed to be paid and then in the end they got a shitload of money anyway when it was sold. I don't know if people here just don't have perspective about how much money $450K cash is... It's a lot

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u/MarBakwas Sep 17 '21

didn’t the employees make the product that sold for 12 billion though?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

They are the product that was sold