The deeper issue you are pointing out is that only early employees get to capture the majority of the value while late employees only get the bread-crumbs. So everyone wants to be "early employee" of new products. In a way, this is inherent problem with capitalism where the idea is that if you have the capital, you pay the workers generating your capital only through return on capital as opposed to part of the capital. This way you can grow your networth exponentially in capitalistic system as long as you can begin with sufficient initial capital somehow. Anyone without such capital must live on month-to-month or year-to-year wages generated by the return-on-capital.