“Also, as you undoubtedly know, those sales funded option exercise fees that benefited the company's cashflow.”

The primary goal of NP and SK selling stock was to make a profit. There’s no doubt about that. Yes, the company benefited, but NP and SK made much more. NP used his salesmanship skills in an attempt to make his profit taking seem a sacrifice for the company, but it wasn’t. I’d actually respect him more if he simply said, “I’d like to be a millionaire and right now is a good time to a profit on my options.”