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It would be interesting to see how the company would have performed had he raised employees equity instead of salary?

I think having equity incentivizes employees to focus more on the welfare of the company than a fixed salary. I may be wrong though

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I think this is true, but all things being equal employees will value $1 in salary much more than $1 in equity. So to get the same impact of higher salary, you have to give a large amount of equity. There are pros and cons.

yes, agreed. But increasing salary = increasing worker satisfaction at current position, not necessarily a push for future growth and subsequent stock growth

Increased equity = Push employees to work for company stock growth.

But yes, $1 equity is not same as $1 salary to the employees

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