Didn't you read the "we devs are taking over the world" part and the infamous Andreessen's quote?
That's evil in my book.
Do you mean paying him 1/9th of the money and parting ways?
If Bobby was paid or compensated as he had expected, we wouldn't know about these incidents involving those slurs. That's my point.
> Actually, we are in charge now. You just haven’t realized it yet. Automate or be automated. If you don’t know how to map out complex systems. If you never got grounded as a kid for taking things apart. If you are too lazy or unwilling to learn our ways. If you don’t work for us yet, you soon will. Because software is eating the world.
These are things that software engineers tell themselves after they have been bullied in the business world to remind themselves that they are valuable and that they should be respected, despite encountering people sometimes that place no value or respect in either them or the work that they perform.
Perhaps you could try and share what about the text feels evil to you, though? Why does it feel threatening to you?
IMO, you think that everything that Billy did was clear and above board. That the engineers should have _understood_ that Billy was the one in charge by what he said and what he did. That he owned the idea and that they were there to implement his vision as they best interpreted it in order to get things off the ground. His "payment" for this would be: the win, the .4%, and the good times. The .4% especially made that explicit.
Also, it was clear that there was not necessarily any connection between Billy and the rest of the team after the event unless Billy thought they jelled and decided to keep things rolling. Otherwise they would part ways with everyone having had fun and the coders having gotten a reasonable "taste" if things did take off. Because of Billy mentioning the LLC and his partner.