Unlike many of the other commenters - I liked this submission - there's no magic - just care about your team. This is one of those times when it's all there in the title.
This post would be insightful if it mentioned what his teammembers did after such a crappy experience. Did they go back to academia, or did they go for another industry job?
It's hard to take this guy seriously knowing that part of his story is he traveled Australia in a van for months and basically left his kids behind.