Spin out a startup from the company, employees are the founders, they own the equity, handle hiring, and everything in between. The company gets to invest early-stage in the seed round, and an alliance similar to OpenAI/Microsoft can be established.

Otherwise Transformer Paper case all over again.

Ramp for example had a similar experience, where a top engineer created his own startup in the same industry, and they ended up acquiring it.

On the other hand, people who create huge product wins for companies don’t seem to get paid evenly, and many of them end up leaving to start something of their own.

So there seems to be a market for this kind of work.