Yes. Note I referred to early employees. Cooks and massueses got rich off Google in the days when there were only a few of them and the company was run by ideal

Yes. Note I referred to early employees. Cooks and massueses got rich off Google in the days when there were only a few of them and the company was run by idealistic founders who weren't responsible to the stock market. Now there are hundreds or thousands of such people globally, and things went back to normal. My point is that "janitor who became CTO" is not really a common story at any company, even at Kodak.