> options to buy 1,500 shares of stock at $3/share
What percentage of early employees held their shares till now? It would have been tempting to many to sell to buy a house. Ballmer is the biggest holder now I think.
> Microsoft stock split 2-for-1, and Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. We moved to the brand new Redmond campus in February, 1986, and MSFT went public on 3/13/1986 at $21/share and closed at $27.75/share. Not quite 9 months after I started, my (as yet unvested) stock options were worth $83,250.
Interesting that Microsoft did source control even in 1985 and that Xenix on the PDP-10 (or 11?) was around at that stage.
> options to buy 1,500 shares of stock at $3/share
What percentage of early employees held their shares till now? It would have been tempting to many to sell to buy a house. Ballmer is the biggest holder now I think.
> Microsoft stock split 2-for-1, and Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. We moved to the brand new Redmond campus in February, 1986, and MSFT went public on 3/13/1986 at $21/share and closed at $27.75/share. Not quite 9 months after I started, my (as yet unvested) stock options were worth $83,250.
Interesting that Microsoft did source control even in 1985 and that Xenix on the PDP-10 (or 11?) was around at that stage.