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Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires

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Re: Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires

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I can confirm this as well. I'm about 1 year out of college and just got a Google offer (salary + bonus + stock) that averages ~$240k per year.

How much of that was the base pay? I received a Google offer as well a couple of years ago, with a very concrete salary and a very handwavy "and there are bonuses and stock". Did your offer actually spell out how much the bonuses and stock were worth, or did you only find that out once you accepted the offer?

Haven't accepted yet (deciding between Google and a "hot" late-stage startup). The rough breakdown is $115k salary with 15% bonus if I "meet expectations" (presumably more if I "exceed expectations") + about ~$400k in stock over four years. Add in a sign-on bonus and we reach the $240k average.

Re: Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires

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Are you joking? Look at the developer community in OS X and iOS that are constantly tinkering and learning. Jobs was absolutely an asshole, but to say he "set us all back" is preposterous.

You can develop on iOS? Can you do anything on iOS aside from what apple allows you? Not if someone hadn't figured out how to jailbreak the device.

Yes, I think it's really important to remember that the initial versions of iOS only allowed for JavaScript widgets, no applications at all!

Enterprising hackers who jailbroke the devices paved the way for the App Store as we know it: not Apple.

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