The hypothetical case I was describing was when the employees (say, 1-5 people) are also the sole shareholders. Supposing I write a _killer app_ with a friend

The hypothetical case I was describing was when the employees (say, 1-5 people) are also the sole shareholders. Supposing I write a _killer app_ with a friend and get a patent for it - and it ends up with tens of millions of users quickly - and Apple really wants it for themselves at short notice (too short a notice for them to try to recreate the software code, sic their legal team to invalidate the patent and market it to get enough users) - how far would Apple bend to accommodate my _think different_ attitude?