He's on about 500k/year. It's not enough. That's a not uncommon total package for a reasonably experienced SV engineer, it's not fitting for one of the foremost

He's on about 500k/year. It's not enough. That's a not uncommon total package for a reasonably experienced SV engineer, it's not fitting for one of the foremost pure mathematicians of our generation. It's because most of his output is positive externality, his employer capturing little of his value creation except for the prestige & teaching output, which must be less than 10% of his current value proposition to society.