Just anecdotally I've dabbled with giving employees more equity and it hasn't particularly energized or made them more productive. I think it depends a lot on

Just anecdotally I've dabbled with giving employees more equity and it hasn't particularly energized or made them more productive. I think it depends a lot on the person, wether they have that business mentality to be patient and work hard for revenue growth down the road or they are more comfortable with weekly paychecks. Also the person needs to a be good fit for the business as well. You could give a person 5% of AMZN and they'd still never extra-ordinarily productive unless the challenges, skillset and interest were a match.