Companies who treat their vendors like this have a company culture that treats them the same way. Its therefore OK to kick around other people, even easier since they are behind a company's 'mask'.
the rest of us are scrambling up the slope to get to $5m, then we can relax. Founders who reach that goal and still command the helm and less inclined, nowadays more than ever, to jump ship and sit at a cafe with their laptop, trying to look busy and tweeting about their comeback. Its cold outside baby!