>>105793153The entire startup scam grift is just recruitment with extra steps. the "CEO" is actually just a glorified recruiter who is trying to scam people in to "working" for very low wages to build a fake "product" that nobody wants. Success is measured by your "product" impressing a bigger company to want to hire your enginners in which case whatever bullshit product they were working on will be thrown in the trash and the talent will be put towards whatever corporate goal the purchasers actual intention was. Then if you were on the team you probably get some bonus which is a tiny fraction of what the founders got.