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Google is famous for having made its early cooks and massage therapists into multi-millionaires by giving them stock options. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Google is famous for having made its early cooks and massage therapists into multi-millionaires by giving them stock options.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html?mcubz=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html?m...
Remember that this NY Times article is designed to push emotional buttons. Their entire story revolves around comparing Apple against Kodak. There aren't really any deeper studies or figures provided. You could as well compare a contractor who worked at Kodak with a masseuse at Google and reach the opposite conclusion.
- GuiA 9y agoExcept I work at such one big company, and talk to its security guards, shuttle drivers, cafeteria cooks, every single day. And what do they tell me? That once this ends, they're headed to Whole Foods for another shift. Or that they'll sleep in their car for a few hours tonight before heading to the next job, not seeing their kids. Or that they're struggling to pay for their mom's medical bills and have no clue how they'll ever get out of it. This NY Times article pushes buttons so well because it resonates deeply with what I, and many others, have been hearing every day since they've set foot in Silicon Valley.
- peoplewindow 9y agoYes. Note I referred to early employees. Cooks and massueses got rich off Google in the days when there were only a few of them and the company was run by idealistic founders who weren't responsible to the stock market. Now there are hundreds or thousands of such people globally, and things went back to normal. My point is that "janitor who became CTO" is not really a common story at any company, even at Kodak.