
…d to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness. But none of this is unusual or grounds for divorce. Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.
…ward the horizon for the eventual “exit” that will allow them to reap the benefits of their equity. For true believers placing their faith in the startup dream, a liquidity event is bit like a financial rapture, in which the faithful are finally rewarded for their perseverance through the transmutation of private equity (which employees are generally restricted from selling) into some form of cash or unrestricted public stock. Unfortunately, a number of factors have conspired to make liquidity events more elusive in recent y…