There is; but you’d probably need an accountant and some nontrivial details on the company to know whether it is salient or not.
With the possible exception of some of the people who actually say “taxation is slavery” with a straight face, and believe it, who may in fact have no meaningful distinction between themselves as hominids and themselves as collections of financial instruments; people are not identical to even things they exercise complete personal ownership over.(and not just in the Fight Club ‘you are not your…’ rant sense).
However, that’s not terribly relevant if your only relationship with somebody is likely to be a commercial one. If “Brave Software, Inc.” bears roughly the same relationship to “Brendan Eich” as the contents of my wallet do to me; then any interaction with it in a commercial context is about as close to being an interaction with Brendan Eich as a commercial context will allow. If the ownership structure is such that he’s basically just one of the code monkeys; but gets top billing in PR material because people have heard of him; then my commercial interactions with Brave Inc. are almost entirely not interactions with Brendan Eich; but with whoever actually has a nontrivial ownership stake in the company.
Since Brave Software Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation; it’s a trifle hard to say with much confidence exactly where on this scale the company falls. It might be pretty much his show; he might be just one of the more visible peons. in an entity owned by someone else entirely.
