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>And the CEO would still care about growing the company so that their after-tax gains are maximized.

but the strike price of such options have to be the market price (when they're granted). They can't give bezos options with $0.01 strike price when AMZN is trading at $3600[1]. In that sense, it already works like how you want it to work.

[1] well they can, but they wouldn't be ISOs and would be taxed at regular tax rates.