To his defense he wrote he woulldn't work for companies not paying what they thought he was worth, not what he was worth or what he was thinking he was worth. Basically companies that try to take advantage of him by paying less that what they know they should and could.

The second company in this anecdote folded my entire division after I had been working there a year. I had no idea I could get another 30% increase, it was a happy accident. And maybe before this job I couldn’t have got that pay increase.