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Friedberg estimates Google starting salaries at $105,000 for new graduates as a startup comparison baseline.
“And if you were to get a job at Google when you graduate, the anecdotal evidence suggests that your first year salary would be about $105,000 this year.”
Friedberg calculates median startup founder payoff at $300,000 over 49 months, or $73,000 annualized—less than Google.
“And assuming three founders, your median expected payoff to the founders would be about $300,000 each, which works out to an annualized salary equivalent of $73,000”
Gurley says Netflix executives choosing cash over stock makes management more thoughtful about expenditures.
“Netflix, they've let executives make a decision between cash and stock, and a lot of them have taken cash. And I personally think management is a lot more, thoughtful about cash expenditures,”
Patel says Chinese firms offer TSMC engineers five hundred thousand dollars versus eighty to one-fifty thousand in Taiwan.
“In TSMC, they're getting paid, you know, only like 80 to 150 k. Right? Like USD. Right?”
Gurley says he would offer Musk's compensation package to any CEO and would buy stock in companies using similar structures.
“I would also say if any other CEO took a package like this, I would in a public company, I would be very encouraged to consider buying a lot of it.”
Gerstner says Google offers AI engineers $500K cash plus $1.5M in monthly-vesting RSUs, totaling millions annually.
“Okay? But instead of cash, for example, Google's offering 500,000 in cash plus a million and $0.5 in RSUs vesting monthly, right, to these engineers.”
Patel claims Meta offered over $1 billion to one OpenAI researcher as retention or acquisition offer.
“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,”
Patel reports hearing Meta offered over one billion dollars to a single OpenAI researcher.
“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,”
Lutnick says three out of four new hires agreed to give 25 percent of their salary to 9/11 families.
“I go, But, I have to send 50,000 to the family so I can only pay you $150,000 Right. So, only one out of four turned it down. Three out of four said, okay.”
Lutnick gave employees who contributed 25% of payroll post-9/11 double their contribution from IPO proceeds plus stock.
“we take a company of ours public, and it's the weirdest deal on Wall Street, because I give my shares double what each of those people gave.”
Dearlove suggests US could pay $100,000 to each Greenland family as part of deal.
“Part of the deal could be a $100,000 from The US for each Inuit family or each Greenland family. You know, they desperately need support.”
Gurley says he would offer Elon's Tesla compensation package to every company he's worked with.
“that package, that type of package that they did for Elon, I've said this, you know, publicly, I would agree to that type of package for every company I've ever worked with, and most CEOs wouldn't take it. It basically says you don't make money unless the stock goes way up.”