

The article also states that the founders had endeavored to distribute more of their share to the other employees, and this was a sticking point in Krafton’s attempt to walk back the original deal:
But the trio declined, claiming the amount was not “anything close to what they deserved, and did not allow them to share the earnout with the full team.””
Given this I don’t think we can fairly prejudge the trio — if they’d received the bonus and then reneged on their promise or made it a negligible amount then it’d be fair to judge them harshly.
Gotta be real, the title of the article promised something and the opening paragraphs didn’t reel me in with a concrete surprising example to get me to read past what seemed, after reading on a few more paragraphs, to be a very long winded path to get to the point.