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Someday Google's going to have to list the risk of Jeff Dean leaving on their 10-K ... (not entirely joking)

• WilliamEdward 8y ago
  Companies actually do this behind the scenes. They list individual employees as financial assets.
  • otp124 8y ago
    Hmm, I hadn't heard of this practice before, and so I went searching and found this article to be a decent summary (posting here if others are curious): https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employees-intangible-assets-44349.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employees-intangible-assets-...
  • dsnuh 8y ago
    They certainly must have him insured... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate-owned_life_insurance
    • Liron 8y ago
      No, there's no point for Google to pay a third party to insure any risk of $1B or less.
      • erikpukinskis 8y ago
        Are there any risks at all worth insuring for Google? What’s the point of insurance if you have $100B in the bank?
  • lloydde 8y ago
    Even some small companies (100+ employee) carefully track attribution of their top N% of non-VP employees and tie it into executive bonus.
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