Comment by NelsonMinar

This reminds me of when Redhat went public in the late 90s and did a generous thing with the friends and family round for the IPO. They included every open source contributor they could find in the Redhat sources. Including me, a grad student at the time. I made a few thousand dollars flipping the stock which probably doubled my salary for the year. (My contribution was an early HTML mode for emacs.) It was a really nice gesture.

Reddit did something similar last year in their IPO. I'd love to read an article on how people benefitted from it.