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Google SWE: billionaire Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Amazon SWE: "richest man in the world" Jeff Bezos Meta SWE: billionaire founder Mark Zucker
by candiodari 5y ago
Google SWE: billionaire Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Amazon SWE: "richest man in the world" Jeff Bezos
Meta SWE: billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg
Netflix SWE: billionaire Reed Hastings
Microsoft SWE: "richest man in the world" Bill Gates
Then we get into the "mere" hundreds of millions.
They created those jobs, and obviously they're very, very wealthy.
- germandiago 5y agoYou will still have silly pretentious people that use Windows and Amazon every day and will tell you that these guys are bad. Start with your vote, kids: use something else, do not buy from them. It is what I would do, in fact, if I had that thinking.
- HWR_14 5y agoWow, way to prove my point. Bezos and Gates cannot create a single job in Amazon or Microsoft (Gates isn't even on MS's board anymore). Brin and Page can probably create whatever job they want, but most engineers don't report up to them and cannot be fired by them. So only 1/3 of the people you posted about (Hastings; Zuckerberg) even are in a position to fire someone working at the company, and probably don't know who those people are. Meanwhile, if all six of them dropped dead tomorrow, the only people whose job would be in peril would be their personal assistants, helicopter pilots, etc. Those are the jobs "created" by the founders you listed.