How a billionaire CEO made his employees into millionaires

Fortune
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  • 28 days ago
Jay Chaudhry sold his startup SecureIT to Verisign in 1998. Verisign’s stock price surged in the coming years, making more than 70 of his 80 employees into “on paper millionaires.”

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