As a public company, many of our employees are shareholders (literally: owners), some via share-based comp, some via secondary purchases.

We don't enforce that, as a condition of employment, you must accept share-based compensation. Employees are mostly [1] paid in cash and we let employees decide how much of that cash they want to invest in the company.

[1]-some executives are "forced" to accept share-based compensation as part of their comp.