"the company tried to do him out of because he wasn't a developer" Is this true? Serious question because I've never heard that before (quite the opposite, I'

"the company tried to do him out of because he wasn't a developer" Is this true? Serious question because I've never heard that before (quite the opposite, I've only heard other early Google employees defend him from external sources as being, if anything, (relatively) undercompensated). Anyway, the point stands, being a lowly common stock holding employee is a lottery that you can lose on in an infinite number of ways even if the company is wildly successful, which is already a huge longshot. If you get a bunch of money from it, great; but you certainly shouldn't rely on it to pay off anything.