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> And OpenAi probably had to renegotiate with those with a $100m offer so their costs went up. That sounds like the actual move here. Exploding your competitor
by martin_a 1y ago
> And OpenAi probably had to renegotiate with those with a $100m offer so their costs went up.
That sounds like the actual move here. Exploding your competitors cost structure because you're said to pay insane amounts of money for people willing to change...
On the other hand: People talk. If Meta will not pay that money that talk would probably go around...
- drexlspivey 1y agoThey will just give them more equity which costs nothing
- twoodfin 1y agoI am nearly certain that’s not how Zuckerberg thinks about equity. You also have to publicly account for RSU’s to the market just like any other expense.
- v5v3 1y agoThis is an offer made 2 year ago to someone: >Base salary: $250,000 Stock: worth of $1,500,000 over 4 years Total comp projected to cross $1M/year https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zhengyudian_jobsearch-founderjourney-techcareers-activity-7335730766049390592-IKSy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zhengyudian_jobsearch-founder... https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_researcher/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_re...
- tasuki 1y agoHuh? Equity costs a lot. It's diluting existing shareholders, ie Zuck.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoMeta is doing $10 billion in buybacks every quarter. Giving out equity undoes that.
- highwaylights 1y agoFollowing this logic if Meta had been offering this money and stop doing so going forward, this article is pretty good cover for reigning those costs in (if they wanted to).