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In the silicon valley success stories the managers and founders walk away with hundreds of times more than the young engineers they hired.

Yeah but the employees put in their 5 years and walk away with a cool half a million.

Having given up just... well about half a million working at a big tech company, but they got to change the world or something.

BigCo != early startup. Generally far fewer all nighters, different risk/reward.