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Really legendary CEO's don't even give stock options to early employes.

When Steve Jobs Refused To Give Early Apple Employees Stock, Steve Wozniak Offered Them $10 Million Of His

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-gave-early-appl...

I believe in that instance, he did give stock to early employees, but left one of them out (probably because he wanted to be a dick). The rest of the early employees felt bad for the guy since he had been there since the beginning and Woz offered him some of the shares.

Your point? If you wished to imply that because Jobs did it - it's the way to go, you're committing a fallacy of "appealing to authority" [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

the point that strangely even being a douchebag and treating employees like crap he managed to achieve great perceived success and for some people success it's all that matters.

Amazon could also be another interesting example

Reminder Amazon treats its employees like shit

http://gizmodo.com/reminder-amazon-treats-its-employees-like...

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