[baguasquirrel]

Make NCAs illegal. Make it so your employer doesn't own what you do in your spare time. A truly nuclear option is to bar discrimination based on previous employment history.

One major peril for erstwhile startup founders is that if you fail while bootstrapping, it can be hard to get a job because people, for some stupid reason or another, consider you to be unemployed. That problem is a non-issue in the valley but I do wonder if it will have to be solved by brute force elsewhere.

[arethuza]

"Make it so your employer doesn't own what you do in your spare time"

The simple answer to that is to avoid employment contracts that claim that - the only time I've had a contract that claimed that was when I was CTO of a VC backed company and one of the investors insisted. My own lawyer suggested that it was unenforceable anyway - as many things are in employment contracts.