When discussing income, many people's first thought is always salary. However, companies that truly create billionaires rely not on salary systems, but on highly flexible asset allocation mechanisms. As long as a company can provide enough outstanding employees with sufficient stock options and dividends, wealth leaps will naturally occur. From this perspective, $NVIDIA has provided a very clear answer. Nvidia's entry-level employees don't have very high base salaries because what truly changes their fate is not salary but stock holdings. The wealth leaps achieved by a large number of employees are due to the equity returns brought by the company's long-term growth, not monthly salary cash flow. $Tesla pushes this wealth-creating effect to its extreme. As one of the companies with the most dramatic employee wealth leaps in Silicon Valley history, Tesla distributed a large number of stock options to employees and executives, while simultaneously experiencing a hundredfold increase in market capitalization. Besides @elonmusk, Tesla has the highest number of employees, both internal and former, who have become billionaires through long-term stock ownership or stock options. Applying this logic to the crypto industry, salary is merely the surface; what truly determines upward mobility is the hidden but highly elastic asset-based income. Whether in the VC era or within project teams, the real way to make money has never been through salaries, but rather through project revenue sharing, co-investment quotas, and token dividends. Project teams experience extremely high income elasticity during bull markets. This is why many people are willing to join project teams. Monthly salaries might only be a few thousand dollars, but the core lies in the 0.1%–1% token allocation as an incentive. Once the project is listed on a top exchange, the outcome is completely different. This path is inherently very risky. A visionary boss might be willing to buy back your token allocation; a bad boss might fire you before dividends are distributed. This is the high uncertainty that comes with high returns. In the crypto industry, by this standard, the company that produces the most individuals with financial freedom and billionaire status remains Binance. It not only created a large number of employees with financial freedom but also a large number of users who achieved upward mobility through early participation in BNB. Like Qian Jiangyue, who achieved financial freedom in the previous cycle, her initial role was simply a Binance angel investor and an early holder of BNB. Those familiar with Binance know that many long-term employees' core wealth doesn't come from their salaries, but from their long-term holdings of early BNB. Binance's support for its employees and ecosystem participants is almost unparalleled in the industry. @cz_binance supports outstanding employees starting their own businesses, and the probability of employees leaving to start their own businesses is relatively higher than with government support—similar to Nvidia and Tesla. From this perspective, @heyibinance's recognition of Huang Renxun is not difficult to understand. The essence is not imitating a particular company's model, but establishing a mechanism that allows employees and users to truly obtain excess returns through judging trends, participating in the market, and building together in the long term. Ultimately, salary is only a certainty; what truly determines the upper limit is whether you are on the right side of the asset.

Many companies issue shares to their core employees in order to tie their core interests together. This way, core employees will work harder to create value, which belongs to both the company and themselves.