Back in 1983, Apple was just a small company that crawled out of a garage. But Jobs' understanding of stock Options at that time could still outshine a lot of publicly listed company CEOs today.

This foresight is not just talk—he understood long ago that real motivation comes not from salaries, but from making the team a community of shared interests. Decades have passed, yet how many traditional enterprises still rely on the outdated fixed salary model, resulting in employees being disengaged and executives cashing out and leaving.

Think about the Token allocation of current Web3 projects; doesn’t it feel somewhat familiar? Core team lockup, community incentives, long-term value binding — essentially, they are all addressing the same issue: how to make participants truly care about the future of the project.

Some things were seen through by people forty years ago.