Mark Cuban laid out why he thinks companies should give all employees stock
"Every single employee" should get a financial stake in the company they work for, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said.
Mark Cuban.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesMark Cuban said giving every employee stock is the best way to reduce wealth inequality.The billionaire entrepreneur said companies should reward all workers with stock, not just top executives.
He has long championed giving employees a stake in the companies they help build.Mark Cuban says one of the best ways to tackle income inequality is by giving workers a stake in the companies they help build.Speaking in an episode of the "What It Takes" podcast from Unmoderated News released on Thursday, the billionaire entrepreneur said that every employee, from the CEO to the janitor, should receive company stock.
He also proposed using the tax code to encourage businesses to do it."I would like to see it so that every single CEO/founder/entrepreneur does what I did, which was to give equity to every single employee," Cuban said.Cuban, the founder of Cost Plus Drugs and former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has been making the same argument for years.
He has repeatedly called for companies to share more of their success with employees and has said he has paid bonuses after every company sale, helping about 300 Broadcast.com employees become millionaires when Yahoo bought the company in 1999.The proposal comes amid a widening income gap between executives and workers.
Oxfam and the International Trade Union Confederation found that the CEOs of the world's largest companies enjoyed an 11% real-terms pay rise in 2025, while average worker pay increased just 0.5%.In the US, S&P 500 CEO pay climbed 25.
6% from 2024 to 2025, compared with a 1.3% real-terms rise in average hourly earnings for private-sector workers.On Thursday's episode of the "What It Takes" podcast, he said sharing equity is the most effective way to reduce wealth inequality because employees benefit directly when the companies they work for succeed."
The way you're going to reduce income inequality for anybody who works with somebody is making sure they get shares of stock
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