> options to buy 1,500 shares of stock at $3/share
What percentage of early employees held their shares till now? It would have been tempting to many to sell to buy a house. Ballmer is the biggest holder now I think.
> Microsoft stock split 2-for-1, and Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. We moved to the brand new Redmond campus in February, 1986, and MSFT went public on 3/13/1986 at $21/share and closed at $27.75/share. Not quite 9 months after I started, my (as yet unvested) stock options were worth $83,250.
Interesting that Microsoft did source control even in 1985 and that Xenix on the PDP-10 (or 11?) was around at that stage.
thomassmith65•3h ago
nabih’s opened in 1972, started carrying Apple products in 1978, and are still in business today.
Are they? Wikipedia says they closed in 2012, and the nabihs.com website features products from that era.
kristianp•3h ago
What percentage of early employees held their shares till now? It would have been tempting to many to sell to buy a house. Ballmer is the biggest holder now I think.
> Microsoft stock split 2-for-1, and Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. We moved to the brand new Redmond campus in February, 1986, and MSFT went public on 3/13/1986 at $21/share and closed at $27.75/share. Not quite 9 months after I started, my (as yet unvested) stock options were worth $83,250.
Interesting that Microsoft did source control even in 1985 and that Xenix on the PDP-10 (or 11?) was around at that stage.