Steve Wozniak explains why he gave $10 million of his own shares to early Apple employees after IPO

Well, there were five of us that really ran the company for the first three years, and we pretty much had, you know, almost all the stock. So when we went public, I didn't feel right about. I felt that everybody had been around us was a part of helping. I came from Hewlett Packard, and they had profit sharing every quarter. A certain amount of the profit was given to the employees of stock because you as an employee should feel like an owner of your company. And I felt that so strongly. So I gave away a lot of my own stock to almost everybody in the company in marketing, engineering jobs, a certain level of job. And then I gave huge amounts to a few key people, young people that were in high school that helped enthuse me and, you know, helped write code with me in the early days. Wouldn't have gotten to where I got to without them. And I felt they deserved a part of it, too. They shouldn't be treated like they aren't worth anything.