There are many cautionary post-IPO stories in the tech world as there are medieval morality plays. A few calls to Valley veterans revealed:
-The quiet code writer rarely seen outside his cubicle who suddenly takes to wander the halls and bursting in on the CEO's private meetings until he is summarily fired.
-The mousy guy in accounting who dumps his mousy wife and runs off to Mexico with the admin.
- The lonely programmer who goes off to a men's club to celebrate his new wealth and marries a stripper he meets there.
-The sober family man who, upon discovering he's half Native American, renounces his US citizenship and moves to an Indian reservation so he won't have to pay taxes.
-The programmer who quits, buys the sports car ofhis dreams, crashes, loses everything in the resulting personal-injury lawsuit, and ends up broke, back in his old job.
-The senior executive who takes his new wealth up into Los Altos Hills and spends the next decade putting the money up his nose one gram at a time.
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