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They could have payed roughly 500 people for 5 years with that money. Maybe one of them would have caught the bugs that led to their data breaches. They also c
by turbinerneiter 9y ago
They could have payed roughly 500 people for 5 years with that money. Maybe one of them would have caught the bugs that led to their data breaches.
They also could have bankrolled 10 or more start-ups with that cash.
Hell, they could have spent it on blow for their workforce. At least that would have made for interesting stories.
- pmlnr 9y agoOr ~100 highly qualified principal engineers.
- jacquesm 9y agoPG and company managed to bankroll 100's of startups with that kind of cash. And probably much less, considering that that was the whole take of the sale of Viaweb and I'm sure they didn't invest all they made with that sale into YC.
- exodust 9y agoI know right, I can't understand how we still place so much importance on the character sitting in the CEO's chair and not the people actually working on the products. I suppose not all companies do that. It's sad about Yahoo, my first email address was Yahoo, signed up around 1998. I still have it and use it.
- hobarrera 9y agoThe scale is ridiculous. What she made in a month is probably more than what my parents will make during their lifetimes. She's made more money in a week that twice what I've made in all my life.