You have been tasked to make a hard decision and let 3 key US-based scientists go that each make $300,000 a year and they have worked on the last vaccine launched in 2022. This vaccine has made the company $200 million dollars. The reason you need to let them go is because the President wanted to outsource their work for the 2025 vaccine launch because your new budget is $500,000 dollars now. You can also offer equity to the 3 key scientists up to .005% of future profits of the 2025 vaccine, which is estimated at $500 million dollars of profit. This equates to $2.5 million dollars each. How would you approach this conversation with the 3 key scientists