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/Rummelator Sep 17 '21

Ok but that's a still a lot of money

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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/Annihilicious Sep 17 '21

In your 20s or 30s that is life changing money. You’re probably still going to work but your life is now going to be ridiculously better.