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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview

“We transition then from stock options to stock awards, which if you notice, I think we were the first to make that as a major transition, but everybody’s made the same transition with the exception of a few senior executives, options are not the primary form of compensation.”

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2 Jun 2025
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Acquired

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…This is a really insidious problem. You got to get rid of stock options. We transition then from stock options to stock awards, which if you notice, I think we were the first to make that as a major transition, but everybody’s made the same transition with the exception of a few senior executives, options are not the primary form of compensation. Little different in startups. But when you look at larger companies, everybody’s, Even startups are now doing RSUs.…

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