I don't understand what you disagree with. You can hire talent both with cash and with shares. If you are paying market salary - fine. The article clearly talks

I don't understand what you disagree with. You can hire talent both with cash and with shares. If you are paying market salary - fine. The article clearly talks about situations 40% below market pay and such. If you don't like the 33K salary and your risk level then just pay yourself more money and give the equivalent book value shares to the employees. That's a fair deal too.