[JohnFen]

I don't think there's a blanket answer to this. In some cases, I could see some measure of employee ownership being a good thing. In others, I could see the opposite.

In my ventures, I've never done that sort of this because the complexity of it is a headache I could do without, and I've not seen a good argument for why it would benefit my companies or employees enough to be worth the cost. But that's very dependent on the particular venture, I think. I could see it penciling out very differently in other situations.