Supabase says its lawyers identified a legal mechanism for distributing stock as a gift rather than requiring recipients to invest.

“Until we asked them the question, "Well, what if they don't invest? What if we just give them the stock?" [laughing] And they were like, "Yeah, we'll, we'll look into it."”

“And then they came back and they were like, "Actually, there is a mechanism where if you really just wanna give the stock away, you can."”