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off topic: how much do you think a guy like Jeff Dean is worth? 18-19 years at Google, pre-IPO and a super-programmer. Keeping in mind that Google paid Anthony

off topic: how much do you think a guy like Jeff Dean is worth? 18-19 years at Google, pre-IPO and a super-programmer. Keeping in mind that Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Mil and Uber way more than that (technically Uber bought his company and maybe a hard drive :)) More than $500 Mil?

lisper 9y ago
Jeff is priceless.
dmix 9y ago
Levandowski got $120M through acquisition, not salary as an engineer, did he not? Anyway, there was an old article about top salaries at Google that speculated Jeff making $3M/yr [1]. Jeff also angel invested in Teleport, which got acquired [2]. And his wife and him also have a philanthropy foundation that recently donated $1M to MIT [3] (to promote diversity). Any more recent employee stock options he gained and past IPO returns could obviously vary significantly depending on percentages, length of time, etc. But I'd be surprised if it was as high as $500M... [1] https://www.itworld.com/article/2693353/man-or-myth-the-3-million-google-engineer.html https://www.itworld.com/article/2693353/man-or-myth-the-3-mi... [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/teleport-2 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/teleport-2 [3] https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/10/one-of-googles-top-programmers-has-made-stem-diversity-a-phi.html https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/10/one-of-goo...
- puzzle 9y ago
  Jeff was between employee 20 and 30, IIRC, so it's hard to imagine him not having made many millions with the stock. On the other hand, he's the guy who kept his Volvo for well over a decade.
- onetimemanytime 9y ago
  We're all guessing, but his net-worth probably didn't come from his salary. He joined Google 1-3 years after Google was founded so we have to assume that he got a lot of stock options, especially given his talent. When Google IPO-ed in 2004 it had a market cap of $23 Billion. Today is 30 times that much. Of course he might have sold shares, but then he might have gotten super bonuses for a lot of his projects. Maybe he asked to leave and Sergey and Larry gave him a new title and lot of money. Sometime a small tweak makes a Google-sized company billions or tens of billions. They are generous with a tiny % of the sum. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-anthony-levandowskis-120m-pay.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-... "Embattled engineer Anthony Levandowski collected $120 million from Google, despite involvement with at least one start-up that would ultimately compete with the company, according to new legal filings. "
- kolpa 9y ago
  Levandowski got $120m in pay from Google. His acquistion was when Uber acquired Otto
- kolpa 9y ago
  Google is worth $700B and Jeff Dean was employee ~20, a senior engineer and manager/VP. >0.1% equity for someone of that stature is not unlikely -- mid-level engineers at early-stage startups get about 0.1% equity.

lisper 9y ago

Jeff is priceless.

dmix 9y ago

Levandowski got $120M through acquisition, not salary as an engineer, did he not? Anyway, there was an old article about top salaries at Google that speculated Jeff making $3M/yr [1]. Jeff also angel invested in Teleport, which got acquired [2]. And his wife and him also have a philanthropy foundation that recently donated $1M to MIT [3] (to promote diversity). Any more recent employee stock options he gained and past IPO returns could obviously vary significantly depending on percentages, length of time, etc. But I'd be surprised if it was as high as $500M... [1] https://www.itworld.com/article/2693353/man-or-myth-the-3-million-google-engineer.html https://www.itworld.com/article/2693353/man-or-myth-the-3-mi... [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/teleport-2 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/teleport-2 [3] https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/10/one-of-googles-top-programmers-has-made-stem-diversity-a-phi.html https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/10/one-of-goo...

puzzle 9y ago
Jeff was between employee 20 and 30, IIRC, so it's hard to imagine him not having made many millions with the stock. On the other hand, he's the guy who kept his Volvo for well over a decade.
onetimemanytime 9y ago
We're all guessing, but his net-worth probably didn't come from his salary. He joined Google 1-3 years after Google was founded so we have to assume that he got a lot of stock options, especially given his talent. When Google IPO-ed in 2004 it had a market cap of $23 Billion. Today is 30 times that much. Of course he might have sold shares, but then he might have gotten super bonuses for a lot of his projects. Maybe he asked to leave and Sergey and Larry gave him a new title and lot of money. Sometime a small tweak makes a Google-sized company billions or tens of billions. They are generous with a tiny % of the sum. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-anthony-levandowskis-120m-pay.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-... "Embattled engineer Anthony Levandowski collected $120 million from Google, despite involvement with at least one start-up that would ultimately compete with the company, according to new legal filings. "
kolpa 9y ago
Levandowski got $120m in pay from Google. His acquistion was when Uber acquired Otto
kolpa 9y ago
Google is worth $700B and Jeff Dean was employee ~20, a senior engineer and manager/VP. >0.1% equity for someone of that stature is not unlikely -- mid-level engineers at early-stage startups get about 0.1% equity.