> when someone dangles $10M in front of me

I'm cynical enough to think that such $10M will be fake money.

It will be diluted or in some other way made into nothing.

Yep, hundred percent.

No boss will ever pay you enough to retire. Ten million is retire-this-afternoon money.

Especially a boss talking about 50 hour work weeks. If there's really ten million in it, hire my friend and we'll each get five million and boss gets 80 dev-hours of really solid work per week

Oh they won't do that? Maybe it's cause they're BSing up their own book