[TillE]

In this case, "management" (ie, Markus and one or two others) has done 95% of the work of making and selling a hugely successful product. Everyone else was brought on later for support and maintenance.

People are talking about startups, but this is nothing remotely like a typical startup scenario.

[archagon]

They made the initial product, but it sounds like they hadn't done much of the work in a few years.

And 5% of billions would still be a lot.