No, for sure. Early employees should definitely be rewarded for all those things. But it would be nice if there were a better way to structure equity for later employees so that high performing ones can be motivated proportionately.<p>It must be pretty demotivating to spend your time at a small company busting ass to make the stock go from $20 to $21 while you look across the office at the early birds whose only current job description appears to be &quot;sit around and cash out my truckload of $0.01 stocks at $20 every two weeks&quot;.