They can pay the CEO a salary or they can give shares to the CEO-- that's quite standard because they feel that that makes the CEO a shareholder.

他们可以给他发工资或分给他股份,这是惯常的做法,因为他们觉得这样,可以把首席执行官变为股东

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I remember one time I was talking to our CEO and he said, you know maybe we should pay at least one dividend because our employees are forgetting that they own these shares.

有一次我跟首席执行官谈起这事,他说,也许我们应该至少付一次股利,员工们都快忘了他们有股份这事儿了

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