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I'm curious, what sorts of roles do those 100+ people have, that you say make more than $1M/year? I have guesses but want to learn specifics.
by mkramlich 16y ago
I'm curious, what sorts of roles do those 100+ people have, that you say make more than $1M/year? I have guesses but want to learn specifics.
- kenjackson 16y agoDepends on the person. Obviously Gates and Sergey have a visionary/uber-architect role. Others like Sweeney, Cutler and Carmack are hairy-chested devs who checkin just as much code, if not more, than your typical senior dev. And of course there's the gamut in-between. And for a lot of these people, they don't even consider it a lot of money. I had a friend who made $10M after an IPO. I asked how it felt and he said, "For what? To become Silicon Valley middle class?"
- mkramlich 16y agooh I thought you knew them personally. regardless, yeah sounds like the common thread among the guys you cited is that they all were founders/owners of a company. That's generally the sense I've gotten, if you want your ceiling to be $100-200k/year, work for somebody else. But if you want your ceiling to be millions or billions, you have to be a founder/owner.