At one unnamed startup I worked at, one of the sysadmins would just read the CEO's email and let us know o_O I remember one email he sent me, paraphrasing: "Yo

At one unnamed startup I worked at, one of the sysadmins would just read the CEO's email and let us know o_O I remember one email he sent me, paraphrasing: "You know that tech demo you gave the C-Suite last week for that really cool thing you invented in your off-time? Yeah, well they are having their lawyers figure out if your employment contract means that they own it already."