While a good sentiment and seemingly fair, it isn't reasonable for a company to offer this to early/all employees early on in the company lifecycle. Two key re

While a good sentiment and seemingly fair, it isn't reasonable for a company to offer this to early/all employees early on in the company lifecycle. Two key reasons. First, the early employees stock likely hasn't vested enough to make this reasonable. Second, unless the company has already reached the later levels of say Series C/D and are discussing options around IPO or next round to do XYZ, the investors aren't going to entertain this, except for maybe some select early employees. And founders can't sell their own equity and turn around and pay bonuses to employees out of that, it would involve an accounting nightmare that no investor would like to see on the financials in later rounds. Not to mention that money would be taxed so many times no one but the government would win.