See this video by Coffeezilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOHf20slZg It's a bit clickbaity, but turns out Rabbit was a crypto-nft-ai buzzword company with a very shady history.

In this light I can't help but imagine Jian Yang from Silicon Valley running one of his schemes. It's funny to think about, but also hits close to home.

I just had a (contract) team member "quit" abruptly. Happy happy, oh I'm burned out, and need to take 3 months off, maybe more. I'm the last person in the world that would overwork an employee. In fact, I spend a good amount of my time pushing back against anything that would cause overwork. Burnout can happen for multiple reasons, and with various manifestations, so I may never know whether the person was actually burned out.

I've definitely been across situations where life intrudes into the work as well. Partners trying to get into a building (previous job) to confront an employee about cheating.

Humans are messy. Yes it might be the startup itself that has brought these problems on itself, but that isn't a certainty.

The story was about an employee supposedly sabotaging the company from the inside and leaking secret keys, not someone who quit from burnout.

> I understand it’s a startup, but all of this is just weird.

You should watch Coffeezilla's video too. Rabbit is a big can of maggots and the tech is only the cherry on the shit stew