当创始人与高管层因股价飙升而财富激增之际，亿万富翁马克·库班指出员工理应分得一杯羹。
针对乐施会（Oxfam）近期发布的“2015年以来全球亿万富豪财富增长33万亿美元”报告，库班在X平台发文称，财富激增的根源在于“股市一路飙升”。
“你知道是谁在为这波涨势提供资金支持吗？尤其是近期？是散户投资者和401（k）养老金计划，”库班写道，“更值得探讨的问题是：为什么我们不出台激励措施，鼓励企业向全体员工授予公司股份，且员工所获股份占现金收益的比例与首席执行官的比例保持一致呢？”
尽管许多企业已推出员工持股或利润分享计划，但仍有不少企业对员工可获得的份额设定了上限。
例如，科技公司英特尔（Intel）每年有两次认购期，员工可按15%折扣购买相当于年薪15%的股票，且年度购买上限为2.125万美元；而科技巨头Adobe则允许员工以15%折扣认购最高相当于年薪25%的股票，年度上限同样为2.125万美元。
库班指出财富本身并非问题——关键在于企业如何运用财富
这位《创智赢家》明星马克·库班的净资产约为60亿美元，其财富积累源于对股权的押注。他的职业生涯始于创立broadcast.com，1999年以57亿美元将其售予雅虎。如今他持有美国职业篮球联赛（NBA）达拉斯独行侠队少数股权，并于2022年联合创立Cost Plus Drugs。
这位成功投资者认为，只要财富能惠及全体员工，企业高管的财富增长便无可厚非：“同情心与资本主义——而非贪婪——才能让这个国家变得更强大。”
“多项研究表明，当员工持股时，企业的表现更为出色，这与我在多家公司的经历相符。”库班向《财富》杂志透露。
这位亿万富豪补充道，首席执行官持有的“流动净资产”越多，就越有机会惠及他人、永久性地改变他们的生活。
“当你利用自己的企业或其他专业知识帮助他人时，对你及其他许多人而言，这些资金将产生更大价值。”
库班曾通过奖金与员工分享利润
长期以来，库班一直主张企业应向员工授予股票期权，并在自己的企业中践行这一理念。例如，他常通过现金奖金而非股权授予的方式与员工分享利润。
“在我出售的每家公司中，我都会向所有任职超过一年的员工发放奖金。”他此前在X平台发帖表示。
他在帖子中写道：在Broadcast.com任职期间，330名员工中有300人成为百万富翁。而在MicroSolutions（他创立的首家公司）任职时，他将公司20%的利润分给80名员工。至于达拉斯独行侠队，尽管并非完全出售，但他仍向员工支付超3500万美元。
在2020年《This is Working》播客节目中，他表示企业若能“立即以切实有效的方式与员工分享股权，让所有人都从中受益，就能从员工那里获得更多回报，员工也会更投入。”（*）
译者：中慧言-王芳
当创始人与高管层因股价飙升而财富激增之际，亿万富翁马克·库班指出员工理应分得一杯羹。
针对乐施会（Oxfam）近期发布的“2015年以来全球亿万富豪财富增长33万亿美元”报告，库班在X平台发文称，财富激增的根源在于“股市一路飙升”。
“你知道是谁在为这波涨势提供资金支持吗？尤其是近期？是散户投资者和401（k）养老金计划，”库班写道，“更值得探讨的问题是：为什么我们不出台激励措施，鼓励企业向全体员工授予公司股份，且员工所获股份占现金收益的比例与首席执行官的比例保持一致呢？”
尽管许多企业已推出员工持股或利润分享计划，但仍有不少企业对员工可获得的份额设定了上限。
例如，科技公司英特尔（Intel）每年有两次认购期，员工可按15%折扣购买相当于年薪15%的股票，且年度购买上限为2.125万美元；而科技巨头Adobe则允许员工以15%折扣认购最高相当于年薪25%的股票，年度上限同样为2.125万美元。
库班指出财富本身并非问题——关键在于企业如何运用财富
这位《创智赢家》明星马克·库班的净资产约为60亿美元，其财富积累源于对股权的押注。他的职业生涯始于创立broadcast.com，1999年以57亿美元将其售予雅虎。如今他持有美国职业篮球联赛（NBA）达拉斯独行侠队少数股权，并于2022年联合创立Cost Plus Drugs。
这位成功投资者认为，只要财富能惠及全体员工，企业高管的财富增长便无可厚非：“同情心与资本主义——而非贪婪——才能让这个国家变得更强大。”
“多项研究表明，当员工持股时，企业的表现更为出色，这与我在多家公司的经历相符。”库班向《财富》杂志透露。
这位亿万富豪补充道，首席执行官持有的“流动净资产”越多，就越有机会惠及他人、永久性地改变他们的生活。
“当你利用自己的企业或其他专业知识帮助他人时，对你及其他许多人而言，这些资金将产生更大价值。”
库班曾通过奖金与员工分享利润
长期以来，库班一直主张企业应向员工授予股票期权，并在自己的企业中践行这一理念。例如，他常通过现金奖金而非股权授予的方式与员工分享利润。
“在我出售的每家公司中，我都会向所有任职超过一年的员工发放奖金。”他此前在X平台发帖表示。
他在帖子中写道：在Broadcast.com任职期间，330名员工中有300人成为百万富翁。而在MicroSolutions（他创立的首家公司）任职时，他将公司20%的利润分给80名员工。至于达拉斯独行侠队，尽管并非完全出售，但他仍向员工支付超3500万美元。
在2020年《This is Working》播客节目中，他表示企业若能“立即以切实有效的方式与员工分享股权，让所有人都从中受益，就能从员工那里获得更多回报，员工也会更投入。”（*）
译者：中慧言-王芳
As founders and C-suite executives grow wealthier from soaring stock gains, billionaire Mark Cuban says employees deserve a piece of that pie too.
Responding to a recent Oxfam report about billionaire wealth increasing by $33 trillion since 2015, Cuban posted on X that the reason behind the surge is that “the stock market has gone straight up.”
“You know who is funding the increase, particularly lately? Retail investors. 401ks,” Cuban wrote. “The better question is, why are we not giving incentives to companies to require them to give shares in their companies to all employees, at the same percentage of cash earnings as the CEO?”
While many companies already offer stock ownership or profit-sharing, many cap what employees can get.
For example, the tech company Intel has an enrollment period twice a year, where employees buy stock up to 15% of their salary at a 15% discount—or a maximum of $21,250 a year. Meanwhile, tech giant Adobe offers employees to contribute up to 25% of their salaries (with a maximum of $21,250 per year) at a 15% discount.
Cuban says wealth isn’t the problem—it’s how companies use it
With an estimated net worth of $6 billion, Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has built his fortune by betting on ownership. He began his career founding broadcast.com before selling it to Yahoo in a $5.7 billion deal in 1999. Nowadays, he owns a minority stake in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and is co-founder of his 2022 venture Cost Plus Drugs.
Given his success, the investor says wealth gains for leaders are okay, just as long as it’s benefiting everyone properly: “Compassion and capitalism—not greed—are what can make this country far greater.”
“Multiple studies show that when everyone owns stocks, the results are better. Which matches my experiences with multiple companies,” Cuban told Fortune.
The billionaire added that the more “liquid net worth” a CEO has, the more opportunity they have to benefit others and change their life for good.
“The value of those dollars become much greater, to you, and so many others, when you use your business, or other expertise to help others.”
Cuban has previously shared profits through bonuses
Cuban has long argued that companies should give employees stock options and he’s backed up that philosophy in his own ventures. For example, he has often shared profits through cash bonuses rather than equity grants.
“In every business I’ve sold, I’ve paid out bonuses to every employee who’d been there for more than a year, ” he said in a previous X post.
In the post, he wrote that while at Broadcast.com, 300 out of 330 employees became millionaires. Meanwhile, at MicroSolutions (the first company he founded) he paid out 20% to 80 employees. The Mavericks he said wasn’t a full exit, but he paid out more than $35 million to staff.
In a 2020 episode of the “This is Working” podcast he said that businesses will “get more from your employees, and they will be more committed if you share equity immediately in a meaningful way, so that everybody rises.”