Thanks To Zuck

Startup founder: "We're disrupting healthcare! Join our mission!"

Engineer: "I checked Crunchbase and my salary exceeds your entire funding round."

The beautiful transparency of tech compensation data strikes again! Thanks to sites like Crunchbase (and indirectly to Zuckerberg's social networking revolution), engineers can now instantly verify if your "world-changing startup" can actually afford competitive compensation. No more trading actual money for equity in your "revolutionary" idea that's basically "Uber for bandaids." Pre-seed doesn't pay the bills, but FAANG salary certainly does!