Yet Another VC Who Devalues Programmers

I guess the exchange rate of the rupee to the dollar has gotten all the VCs thinking that because Indian programmers are cheap, everyone else should be cheap. Never mind the relative costs of living.

Auren Hoffman seems to think that good programmers should be willing to be undervalued at the hiring, with the unspoken (and therefor unenforceable) promise of getting more than market value in time as raises are doled out. And this is not even the promise of big money euity - it's just salary!

Tell you what, Mr. Hoffman, how about you take a 20% cut now, just to see if you really want to keep working at your current job. If you're really good, you'll get a raise eventually that will put you above the market average.

What do we have to do to get people to realize that programming is as much work as selling, more being a CEO?

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