> If you really want to earn you need to be in the top 3-4 in the company. Best to be a founder.

The most important line of the article. If you're not on the conference calls and meetings that involve money, you're a sucker. They are hiding things from you.

Work a 9-5 and "learn" on your own time - or better yet, learn as part of the job where you're paid what you're actually worth. Many developers need to learn how to grow a spine and not work to make other (startup) people rich.

Likewise, if you work a 9-5 and don't have time to "learn", you're a sucker. What the HELL (!!!) are you doing working your ass off for a megacorp? This is something of a false dichotomy.