To be frank, even if you had a point to make, making outlandish claims about someone else’s personal financial status when I’m willing to bet you know absolutely nothing about it, is pretty distasteful.
And frankly if you don’t like how Cantrill and company structured their compensation incentives, start your own company and do something different?
Huh, this is some Bluesky-level manufactured offended-ness.
The only comment I made about an individual in particular was related to virtue signaling. The financial commentary was about the profile of the founders, not an individual's finances in particular. If you have been a mid-level engineer at FANGs for half that long in Bay Area, riding the tech wave of 2010s alone and bought a house, I would expect they would be in low single digit millions net worth plus or minus, which is be an entirely different league today than someone who is just getting started. This is not a comment on a single person's financial status, but a much more general observation about why the everyone-is-equal model does not result in equal sacrifice by startup employees.
Of course they are more than entitled to their compensation structure for their own company. I am not even objecting to it being appropriate for their circumstances (for example, if you expect all your employees to be relatively senior that might work just fine.) However, once you proselytize a model by writing a blog post, it is fair game for me to comment on it. If you think that's not appropriate, feel free to be offended.
And frankly if you don’t like how Cantrill and company structured their compensation incentives, start your own company and do something different?