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Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was just about to post that exact link. Still not too shabby.

Not bad, but I was making the same in 97 with about the same experience level, in Atlanta. It wasn't an exceptional salary in any way.

It's not exactly a completely humble beginning either, though. You may be out of touch with what salaries look like for the average American.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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Wonder how it worked out...

Did he hand in his resignation and was asked to reconsider? Did he tell them he wanted more money? Did they find out about the twitter offer from outside sources and arrange for the bump?

How did the semantics play out?!

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ahem. This is 10-15x the money portion of tenure. You still have to think about advertising all day every day. I'd take the tenure.

I am completely naive to what you just said, may you please explain like I am five? [I am dead serious]

I think the GP is saying that a tenured professor typically has the option of a wide range of job freedom. You work on pretty much what you want and when you want. The GP is contrasting this with being the head of advertising at Google, which one might guess is fairly demanding.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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Reading this, his compensation is the least amazing part. If this article is true, it should have been titled "A Story Of Competence". Does anyone have any doubt the guy is generating Google this money many times over? It's simple math. It has nothing to do with curing cancer, economical equality or anything else. He's something that's worth X and pays back many X. I can understand why this comes as a shock to some;…

I highly doubt he's bringing in $100M for Google. I think he knows $100M worth of Google's secrets.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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I find this fascinating. It almost smacks of game theory. A land-mined game of incentives, anyway. Think of the sheer amount of considerations that go into a decision like this. Higher-ups at Google must acknowledge: * Offering someone an enormous sum only after someone else has made you an offer can be off-putting. Consider the many articles written about never making counter offers[1], or never accepting them. * Al…

Google is safe offering him $100M without offending the other employees, because the other employees at that level at Google already earn that much, if not more.

Giving him $100M was more of a correction because he arrived at the company later than the other equiv execs. Most of the top tiers of employees at Google, which is where he would be, are worth hundreds or millions and more through vested stock, new options, bonuses, etc.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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This is a job for life and then some. If you compare this with full professorship (academic tenure), that will cost the university about $4 million (assuming $60k/yr - probably $6-7 million if the university is upper echelon). So conservatively this is 10-15x what tenure is. Neal Mohan sounds like the business equivalent of Jeff Dean [1] [1] http://research.google.com/people/jeff/

Ahem. This is 10-15x the money portion of tenure. You still have to think about advertising all day every day. I'd take the tenure.

>have to think about advertising all day every day

That sounds no difference from 'think about chemistry all day every day', doesn't it?

I think advertising is more interesting and inspiring these days than many of traditional science areas. Not to mention it's a huge field including bleeding age AI, Big Data, performance, etc.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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post #66

I find this fascinating. It almost smacks of game theory. A land-mined game of incentives, anyway. Think of the sheer amount of considerations that go into a decision like this. Higher-ups at Google must acknowledge: * Offering someone an enormous sum only after someone else has made you an offer can be off-putting. Consider the many articles written about never making counter offers[1], or never accepting them. * Al…

Google is safe offering him $100M without offending the other employees, because the other employees at that level at Google already earn that much, if not more. Giving him $100M was more of a correction because he arrived at the company later than the other equiv execs. Most of the top tiers of employees at Google, which is where he would be, are worth hundreds or millions and more through vested stock, new options,…

I find that very hard to believe. I'm ok with the talk about hackers being 10x more productive than regular developers. But a $100m bonus would mean that guy is about 1000 times more valuable than the average. It defies common sense in every way. And it's not just because I'm jealous and resentful I'm thinking that, no ones time is that valuable.

Re: Google Paid This Man $100 Million

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Original source for the article, with better formatting: http://www.businessinsider.com/neal-mohan-googles-100-millio...

A study showed that links from Business Insider stand an extremely low chance of getting upvotes on HN ( http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys... ). That's why people post other websites' syndications of BI.
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