Ah. Yes, completely right -- I was musing more on the top comment relating to cliffs and the practice in general.

In most cases if you're hiring where options are seen as necessary to get that talent - seems like it's going to be an odd (but not impossible) case where you're happy to walk that talent out the door too.

It's hard to imagine that even a dozen employees stock options would transfer majority control. Surely the share split can't be so tight that tenths of a percent would make a difference?