Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)

3888.052 - 3915.316 Howard Schultz

to venture capitalists and i was proposing something that had never been done before and that was i wanted to give equity in the form of stock options to every single employee in the company and they just said what what are you talking about we're not doing that and so the fight became ultimately we gave 14 of everyone's base pay in the form of stock options at the end of the year based on the strike price and i had to do it the year before the ipo had to so everyone wouldn't miss it