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Not when a company shuts down like this. If they did, the investors would claw it all back through the courts. The founders and executives walk away from this with $0.



> The founders and executives walk away from this with $0.

Often after having forgone salary for a while, also.


How many people are leading a 1500-headcount company on a zero salary? Even Steve Jobs couldn't do it without backdating options to make himself Rockefeller while acting like Gandhi.


Not if they sold secondaries.


Sure they may have made money from a sale months or years ago. But they’re not walking away from this incident with a payout.




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