He claims further down that some make 50k per day. I've met a lot of cashed out founders. I've even met someone who could be called a billionaire. None of them were pure software engineers that made "50k per day" at any point in their career. If you amortize what becomes a 50m grant over 4 years it's about 35k per day, but how many software engineers have done that?

Since a year is ~260 working days, your 50m grant is actually pretty close to $50k / day, not $35k

I do think your overall point stands

Oh you're gonna be working every day and then some to make that 50 million.

Yeah, smells more like wishful FB BS to me.