Pertinent to BK's recall of the eBay going public issue:
I really wished I could have been in on the Amazon.com stocks going public. Jeff Bezos, when he was starting the company, paid his employees a minimum wage enhanced with shares of stock.
Before it went public, anyone who had been hired by the company would have been very, very wealthy if they had been there from the beginning. Stock persons were said to become instant millionaires.
Ever since I read about how he shared like this with his employees, I have been unconvinced by criticism of him for his enormous wealth. He "shared" with those who helped him get there.