How much equity do you give to employees?
sivers: From the book "How to Get Rich" - by Felix Dennis (worth about $1 billion):"To become rich, you must be an owner, and you must try to own it all.   You must strive with every fiber of your being, while recognizing the idiocy of your behavior, to own and retain control of as near to 100% of any company as you can.""Never never never hand over a single share of anything you've created or acquired, if you can help it. Nothing. Not one share, to no one, no matter what the reason, unless you genuinely have to.""Ownership is the only thing that counts."