Frustrated, Zollman and some of the others took a trip to Santa Monica together without the cofounders to get their minds off it, but found themselves in a sort of group therapy session instead. If Kevin had just given each of us one of his millions, they’d say to each other, we wouldn’t have to rent apartments anymore. We could invest in startups, or start our own. They asked their friends and learned that it wasn’t uncommon for startup founders to distribute life-changing sums to their employees after a big deal.
