Sure, go ahead and ask those laid off if they'd feel better if they were given a nice grant of $HOOD, which was worth about 500% more in 2021.

The post-IPO 2021 price stabilized for a while around $50, so $50M is about 1M shares. The article says about 1,000 people were laid off, so if split equally that's 1,000 shares per employee. Since then, the price has come down to about $9, so it's a severance of $9,000 today.

I would hope everyone getting laid off receives at least that much.