Mark Cuban Proposes CEOs Share Stock Like Janitors, Probably Hates Meetings More
KEY POINTS
- â˘Mark Cuban said on the July 2026 'What It Takes' podcast that every worker should get company stock.
- â˘He proposed using tax incentives so companies sharing stock broadly pay less corporate tax.
- â˘Cuban pointed to his 1999 bonus paying 300 Broadcast.com employees millionaires as proof this works.
In true billionaire wisdom delivered on the 'What It Takes' podcast in July 2026, Mark Cuban suggested the radical idea that every employee, yes even the janitor scrubbing his Cost Plus Drugs leftovers, should get stock optionsâas if cleaning toilets makes you less valuable than CEO meetings. Cuban, the former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks and guy who made 300 Broadcast.com employees millionaires back in 1999 when Yahoo bought the company, thinks CEOs should take a tax break only if stock options spread like office gossip. He did math: a CEO making $1 million in cash with $100,000 in stock means the janitor making $50,000 gets $5,000 in stock. Taxman says, "No equity, no favor!" Meanwhile, Elon Musk and Blue Origin trial editors watch nervously as the option game heats upâthough Blue Originâs 18-month non-compete clause practically chains stock to the rocket. Welcome to 2026: CEOs keep their billions, the janitor gets stock, and taxes play puppet master to corporate goodwill.
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(1 of 3)Mark Cuban's equity-for-all plan sounds noble until you realize your janitor's making more stock than your retirement fund ever will while CEOs get tax breaks for playing generational Monopoly.
Giving janitors stock? Finally, a way for middle-management to complain about the mopâs portfolio too.
Tax breaks only if every cubicle drone gets stock? Sounds like capitalism decided to do group therapy.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 7/17/2026 | Author: Thibault Spirlet,Georgia Hennessy
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