That's Jason's business and not yours. I can't even believe such a thing needs to be verbalized. You're coming across like a tabloid journalist. Essentially you're trying to manufacture a controversy here out of an OpEd that: (1) Jason's business partner wrote on his own private time and (2) hasn't been endorsed by Jason's company.
As if business partners can't have differing opinions about the business practices of other companies. If Jason's and DHH's opinions are indeed different, which I'm not convinced they are. Sheesh.
Why would that matter? He was asked, and he said yes. These were options paid to him for his involvement on the board, not money invested by him.
If you did some work for someone, and they paid you with stock instead of cash, wouldn't you feel like converting that to cash the first chance you get?
NO. if i would have a successful company like 37signals and enough money - i would keep the additional startups as long as possible, since there is not much to loose
especially would keep the shares of the "hottest" and "fastest growing" startup groupon
as some papers seem to indicate