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compensation

6 people · 12 quotes · 8 Oct 2011 to 9 Jun 2026

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    1. David Friedberg

      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.”

      8 Oct 2011 · Stanford eCorner · 27:39 · source · permalink
    2. David Friedberg

      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”

      8 Oct 2011 · Stanford eCorner · 27:59 · source · permalink
    1. Bill Gurley

      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,”

      11 Sep 2023 · CNBC Television · 1:32 · source · permalink
    2. Dylan Patel

      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?”

      4 Oct 2023 · Hidden Forces · 39:57 · source · permalink
    1. Bill Gurley

      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.”

      7 Mar 2024 · BG2 Pod · 54:50 · source · permalink
    2. Brad Gerstner

      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.”

      21 Mar 2024 · BG2 Pod · 24:34 · source · permalink
    1. Dylan Patel

      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,”

      30 Jun 2025 · Matthew Berman · 15:03 · source · permalink
    2. Dylan Patel

      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,”

      30 Jun 2025 · Matthew Berman · 15:04 · source · permalink
    3. Howard Lutnick

      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.”

      1 Oct 2025 · Pod Force One with Miranda Devine · 51:09 · source · permalink
    4. Howard Lutnick

      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.”

      1 Oct 2025 · Pod Force One with Miranda Devine · 52:06 · source · permalink
    1. Sir Richard Dearlove

      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.”

      9 Jan 2026 · TalkTV · 13:39 · source · permalink
    2. Bill Gurley

      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.”

      9 Jun 2026 · The Knowledge Project Podcast · 42:05 · source · permalink

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