There is, of course, the FYIFV (Fuck You I'm Fully Vested)[1] trope that originated at Microsoft. But I doubt that Gates and Allen were part of that. :) What I

There is, of course, the FYIFV (Fuck You I'm Fully Vested)[1] trope that originated at Microsoft. But I doubt that Gates and Allen were part of that. :) What I saw at one startup that went public is that the founders didn't start out with a large amount of stock. But after the IPO the board (the founders' buddies) would continue to award them substantial stock grants, even though the company was doing just OK not great. That's not a scenario that's covered by the article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FYIFV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FYIFV