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That's because, so for the first three ways, you are giving up your stocks, right?
There is the ownership transfer of a piece of your company given to somebody else in exchange for the money.
But,
When you issue a dividend, you actually still own the same company, the same amount, but you do get paid.
So we have issued dividends for all our shareholders, employees, investors, founders.
So the investors have been actually making 5X
return on their investment.
And because of that, they're pretty happy.
So we've been able to build schools in Burma.
I have actually grown up in Burma.
I went to college with a scholarship.
So we are paying it forward.
We take our teams to the French Laundry.
And that's what Nathan wants me to put the picture there.
To wrap it up, I want to say all the founders, builders out there, there is a path that you can build things that you love at a pace that you're comfortable with.
And there are people telling you that that's not possible.
So try to keep that in mind.