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In 1999, an unemployed woman living with her sister ended up taking a job giving massages to workers of a small tech startup named "Google". She was only paid $450 a week, but given stock options. Within 5 years she was worth millions, and the price of her stock has only continued to increase.
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A Masseuse became a Multimillionaire after getting partially paid in Google stock options
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In 2005 Carly Fiorina was forced to resign from Hewlett-Packard because the company merged with Compaq. Her severance from the company was $21.4 million. She also received $21.1 million in stock options.
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CEO stock options are tax deductible as a business expense in America, meaning that tax payers are subsidizing $7bn in CEO pay each year.
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Louis Bachelier, a largely unknown mathematician who came up with what was later known the Brownian motion 5 years before Einstein's similar theory, and its application to the stock market 7 decades before the Nobel prize winning option pricing model of Black-Scholes-Merton
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Dr. William McGuire, former CEO of UnitedHealth Group, resigned amid a stock-option scandal, and as a consequence, he was given a severance package worth $1.1 billion in 2006 -- or 3 times larger than the previous record set by former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond just earlier that year
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Instead of taking $60,000 for his commissioned murals at Facebook David Chowe took stock options now worth over $200 million
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Steve Jobs took a $1 salary at Apple from 1997 to the day of his death in 2011, with no bonuses or stock and options. Most of his wealth came from founding Pixar and selling it to Disney, becoming Disney's largest shareholder
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Elon Musk attended Stanford for two days before dropping out to found a company that later sold for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options.
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