Force people to sell when retiring and cap share ownership. I’m not suggesting a blanket single approach to each and every out lying problem you may encounter but I am saying the general idea of employee ownership could work out better than risking everything on a potential VC success story.

When creating an employee owned company these are great things to consider when drafting the agreement but I didn’t read anything from your anecdotes that suggests it wouldn’t be a successful model.

My comment was never about the employee base package requiring investment from the hired employee. I was commenting on offering the base and an additional package for bringing on an investor employee.