Shareholders have definitely paid him! They have been paying him for years through BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of shares through Four Massive Reverse Splits that wiped out all the trusting and paying shareholders in the past!
As far as SNDY making any giant leaps goes, if they couldn't sell their signature product, the failed Mammowview, in the 100 Billion Dollar USA Medical Device Market, what on earth would make anyone think they could sell it in the much smaller 30 Billion Dollar EU and Canadian Medical Device Market!