Twitter’s new CEO Jack Dorsey has enough cash to go round. So much so, in fact, that he’s announced that he’s giving one-third of his stock holdings in the social media company to his employees.
In a tweet, Dorsey announced that he’ll be giving back one-third of his approximately 22 million shares of stock to the employee equity pool, where they will be distributed amongst staff. In total that’s around $US200 million in stock.
Of the news, he explained that he’d “rather have a smaller part of something big than a bigger part of something small. I’m confident we can make Twitter big!” Well, that, and the remaining $US400 million worth of stock, at least.
Still, it might help remaining Twitter employees look on Dorsey more fondly, given he just sacked 336 of their co-workers.
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