No, I'm saying that the founders and early employees (most of whom made comparatively little) took an irrational risk. They had to go more or less all in on one

No, I'm saying that the founders and early employees (most of whom made comparatively little) took an irrational risk. They had to go more or less all in on one company for years of their lives. The investors took very little risk; they diversified it with tens or hundreds of other investments.