𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱.

This is so fucked up. I hiked salary of my employees by 2x-3x on every raise cos they worked hard at below market salaries. This just shows poor hiring practices.

My company laid off a big chunk of the company 2 weeks after raising a big round. I'm assuming this is a really bad market for raising funds and often leads to unfavourable terms (if laying off is even considered unfavourable by these monsters).

Well, you know, this is one of the terms set by VCs

I am curios to know, while fundraising, is founders salary also a part of the expense for which the fund is being raised? I don't have much idea around it. If YES, then how is the founder's salary decided for an early stage startup which raises money. Also with each fundraising, does salary of founder also increase apart from The obvious hike he gets in the stocks the founder owns which is being diluted..

Growth-at-all-costs mandate from the board and investors, while generating more cash for founders once they sell secondaries each round, a portion of which further gets "invested" in other startups for the vicious loop to continue.
Same founders come to podcasts and give gyaan about business, keeping employees happy and what not.
I get that founders make disproportionate risks when they start up or run their businesses but employees also have to put food on their tables, pay EMI's, make a living, if not have a life.