Not only does the CEO get the privilege of choosing whether he wants to relo to Seattle (with a chartered jet for transportation, no less), but Starbucks is also willing to expense up to three months of temporary residence while he's in Seattle until he finds "permanent secondary housing", at which point Starbucks will expense relocation costs.

The average worker that moved to Boise during COVID? RTO, on your dime.

The offer letter also allows the CEO to use the jet for personal travel, up to $250k/year (which is negotiable). Keep in mind that any travel he does while he's with vendors, suppliers, corp customers, etc counts as business travel that hits various corporate budgets and DOES NOT count towards this limit. So if he's into golf and wants to fly himself and his friends to Augusta or something, that's covered by Starbucks (and can also be considered a business expense depending on who's with him; see the previous sentence).

Meanwhile, an employee (that isn't in Sales) who wants to fly Economy to a conference FOR WORK within the continental US has to charge the entire thing against their training budget (usually less than $3000) and, in some cases, provide evidence that they were there.

And people on here wonder why founders, by and large, don't make startups for the love of it anymore.

I agree with the internet here; this is bullshit.

So some PMs, SWEs, HR workers, and accounting folks are butt hurt? They can quit and find remote work for another company.