It was a snippet from a very long interview where almost all of what he said was good.
However, in this answer, I can see why the CEO of a 120k employee company is not going to say "get pushy with your salary" else he's have a pay rise revolt with people's justification being "your boss', boss', boss' boss told me to"
Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary [sic] few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat
"We're aiming to break EVE Online's record of 4,075 pilots, but in real time, concurrently, in a continuous, unsharded battlezone, with directly piloted dogfighting."
Its not that expensive; you get a discount for a further 2 years and if after 5 years you aren't making enough money to afford your licences you might just want to start a new company and re-enroll.
And that's not being able to afford your licences that you are using beyond the program: "BizSpark Alumni can keep, at no charge, all the software they downloaded during their three years in the program, including a standard configuration of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server."
It would suggest you are doing something wrong if you can't afford what ever extra licences, you need to use passed this and 5 years on...
Except Microsoft's "lock in" is lighter; if you build using AWS or Google tech; you are using proprietary tech that can only be hosted by them, which is a deep lock in.