Well, if you have investors outside of the founders. ;-)
But, depending on the investor, I can't imagine they're quite like working for The Man, who conjures up really unhappy images of cube farms and dress codes. I guess I can't really gauge the investors of Mint; maybe they were that bad.
And when people say they have their family to worry about, and I ask them to elaborate, starvation is brought up in many cases. Maybe it is just hyperbole in an attempt to preempt my probing.
But this opens up another probably off-topic discussion on the bounds of beholdenness, and how much of that is self-fulfilling.
Ha I never said their families would starve. My point was most people are beholden to many debts, people and obligations that prevent them from doing X.