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I think Alex Turner (TurnTrout) could qualify. Here's his claim that he gave up over a million dollars on potential earnings (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680727). Off the top of my head, Daniel Kokotajlo also expected to lose $1.7 million when he left OpenAI, but he did end up getting the money anyways, so not sure.