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Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Got to give it to Larry Page and Sergey Brin for having their cake and also eating it.

They control ~51% of voting power with shares thanks to owning ~85% of class B shares. They have had the benefit of someone else running the company for 8 years - and increasing the value of it - and now, when things are not looking great, it’s Sundar Pichai who gets the blame, and the focus on his compensation: and not those who set/approved this compensation.

The biggest winners of Pichai’s leadership have objectively been the shareholders: Google’s market cap increased by ~$890B since he took over as CEO in 2015, tripling the market cap/stock price of the company.

Larry and Sergey run this show: they simply hired someone else to do it for them. When things go well: they profit. When not so well - like now - someone else is on the hook and is the person criticised for how things go at Google; and it’s not them.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Is $225M a lot for CEO of big corporation? I genuinely don't know. What is the average pay?

it's a lot. Here's top 100. https://www.equilar.com/reports/90-table-highest-paid-ceos-2...

Pichai is not on the list because he gets paid big every 3 years I think. It's not a good look either way.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

#13

Hating capitalism is one thing. Being clueless how it works is childish. 200M over 3 years for the CEO of the most consequential tech company on the planet is peanuts. Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune

>Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune

Which pop artist is making anywhere near 220M in take home over 3 years? 70M/year is Taylor Swift numbers, and shes the highest earning female artist ever.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Hating capitalism is one thing. Being clueless how it works is childish. 200M over 3 years for the CEO of the most consequential tech company on the planet is peanuts. Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune

That's whataboutism. Googlers are comparing their pay (and layoffs) to the CEO's comp--pop artists are an entirely separate matter and Googlers may also feel those are paid too much Said differently: I'm not saying they're right or wrong, just pointing out that they can also be upset over pop artists' pay

OpenAI is allegedly paying 5-20M for researchers. Shouldn’t CEO deserve 20x more?

What motivation will Sundar have if you pay him 200K?

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

#15

Hating capitalism is one thing. Being clueless how it works is childish. 200M over 3 years for the CEO of the most consequential tech company on the planet is peanuts. Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune

> Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune Which pop artist is making anywhere near 220M in take home over 3 years? 70M/year is Taylor Swift numbers, and shes the highest earning female artist ever .

Taylor Swift

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

#16

Hating capitalism is one thing. Being clueless how it works is childish. 200M over 3 years for the CEO of the most consequential tech company on the planet is peanuts. Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune

Taylor Swift (one of the saaviest and wealthiest pop stars of the last 20 years) has a total net worth of $500 million. $225 million over three years is significantly more than she’s ever made.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Pop artists make similar money scantily clad and squeezing autotune Which pop artist is making anywhere near 220M in take home over 3 years? 70M/year is Taylor Swift numbers, and shes the highest earning female artist ever .

Taylor Swift

Saying 'Pop artists make similar money' and then using the highest paid female artist ever is kind of misleading.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Got to give it to Larry Page and Sergey Brin for having their cake and also eating it. They control ~51% of voting power with shares thanks to owning ~85% of class B shares. They have had the benefit of someone else running the company for 8 years - and increasing the value of it - and now, when things are not looking great, it’s Sundar Pichai who gets the blame, and the focus on his compensation: and not those who s…

Not sure I'm following. They aren't getting new equity grants, they're de-facto out of the picture and just riding the valuation. They have 51% voting power but it's not obvious they are actively making decisions, rather than just holding onto power in just-in-case.

Sundar is getting new equity grants based on his "performance". That's not the same.

Re: Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's whataboutism. Googlers are comparing their pay (and layoffs) to the CEO's comp--pop artists are an entirely separate matter and Googlers may also feel those are paid too much Said differently: I'm not saying they're right or wrong, just pointing out that they can also be upset over pop artists' pay

OpenAI is allegedly paying 5-20M for researchers. Shouldn’t CEO deserve 20x more? What motivation will Sundar have if you pay him 200K?

Sundar is make 3x more than Satya while doing fuck-all and coasting in his tenure.
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