Options are issued at a fixed strike price so they do not increase in value. Also the payout can be tailored by the vesting date. Generally they were paid out in annual increments over a few years. I suspect this could be adjusted to keep the carrot in view. There were some pretty high priced employees that have left that should have released a lot of forfeited stock. Some of those hay have been given to some new employees.
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