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This might explain it. Apple is now bigger than the city of Chicago and the same size as Switzerland
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46606766

FunTime says

The idea that RSUs or ISOs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are regularly given is mistaken.

Yep.

I work in the trenches, so does my partner. Over the years, year after year (though not every single year) our employers have granted NQ, ISO, RSU. Public companies, private ("pre-IPO" for the Hipsters), big companies, small companies, middle sized companies. Companies on their way up, and also on their way down.

Sounds like you know, and like I know, and like another person (thomaswong86) who (claims to have) actually worked in such organizations knows.

Yep, working on the technology teams inventing, refining, manufacturing the stuff, or in my partners' case, doing the bean counting.

SFAce may be a cheerleader, and may be making Big Talk about the streets of Santa Clara County being paved with RSU/ISO/NQ gold, but those of us who work in the trenches know what is true.

But his cheerleading makes "fun reading", doesn't it?

thomas.wong1986 says

He disliked what he saw back in the early years how people became greedy and childish.. buying expensive toys and getting plastic surgery...

Uh, one of the first things Jobs did was lie to Woz about how much money they made on Breakout, and buying himself a sportscar. Then abandoning his girlfriend and their baby.

Yep. Jobs wasn't the saint some people portrayed him to be.