I hate posts of this nature. There are no hard facts; it's a collection of thoughts communicated as 'facts' via a blog post.

Plenty of Google engineers become start-up co/founders. If you are good at what you do, the start-ups will magically find money for you.

If the a start-up is an equity-heavy sweatshop. You don't have to make $200K to know who is taking advantage of you.