And I think this is where a lot of people in tech who marched through the world of startups (especially those like myself with any degree of success) need to recognize: the 2005-2020 era was basically a lot of people participating in ponzi schemes, in which the bagholders were novel: tech workers accepting private equity with dubious terms in exchange for the privilege of executing the "mission," namely their incredibly time consuming labor to make these products on the off chance they blow up.