tl;dr Austin (posting with his permission) is a CMU grad, who just got fired from Coinbase for having to choose between abandoning a side project he worked on for 5 years (And they knew about when hiring him) because they were afraid he'll "compete" with them. Not for performance, not for any other reason, just forced him to abandon things he worked on on his personal time, using his personal equipment, after agreeing to it when he was first hired. This is not ok.