Posting this with the company name is a little indiscreet.

If it was my company and I was having a bump in the road with funding I would hope for it not to immediately hit the front page of HN for the sake of a few weeks.

Soundcloud actually have a good reputation as an employer so maybe they deserve a small benefit of the doubt? I get the mercenary attitude but it's only potentially a few weeks or months for an incremental pay rise, not as if they are going under....

I suspect this won't be a popular point of view but I like to think company and employee owe each other at least a modicum of loyalty.