The Minutes of Dylan Patel on compensation https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/compensation/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on compensation: 3 verbatim quotes between October 2023 and June 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000 Patel claims Meta offered over $1 billion to one OpenAI researcher as retention or acquisition offer. https://minutesof.com/q/6cadac54-f54f-42a8-b1ad-6eb1de375fd1/ https://minutesof.com/q/6cadac54-f54f-42a8-b1ad-6eb1de375fd1/ “And you said $100,000,000 I've heard a number for someone over 1,000,000,000 actually, for one person at OpenAI. But anyways, you know, it's a ridiculous amount of money,” — Matthew Berman Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:27:19 +0000 compensation Patel reports hearing Meta offered over one billion dollars to a single OpenAI researcher. https://minutesof.com/q/622a3afb-844b-45b2-afe4-3976cf946d69/ https://minutesof.com/q/622a3afb-844b-45b2-afe4-3976cf946d69/ “I've heard a number for someone over 1,000,000,000 actually, for one person at OpenAI. But anyways, you know, it's a ridiculous amount of money,” — Matthew Berman Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:27:19 +0000 compensation Patel says Chinese firms offer TSMC engineers five hundred thousand dollars versus eighty to one-fifty thousan https://minutesof.com/q/86ac248f-4cf7-4321-a389-93eb8a7668ea/ https://minutesof.com/q/86ac248f-4cf7-4321-a389-93eb8a7668ea/ “In TSMC, they're getting paid, you know, only like 80 to 150 k. Right? Like USD. Right?” — Hidden Forces Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:00:36 +0000 compensation