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> As for the couple hundred guys making multiple millions a year who you hear about all the time? Well, there’s even more engineers who have struck it rich with
by jafaku 13y ago
> As for the couple hundred guys making multiple millions a year who you hear about all the time? Well, there’s even more engineers who have struck it rich with a startup, and no baseball player will ever come close to Zuckerberg-level wealth.
You are comparing employees to a CEO and business owner (which doesn't have anything to do with technology, other than for the initial lines of code). Of course he has more wealth.
- kyllo 13y agoCEO of a company with a single product, which is a web app that he wrote the first several versions of by himself, in his dorm room. Yeah, he did it in PHP, but that doesn't mean he wasn't an "engineer" working on "technology."
- jafaku 13y agoStill not an employee. If I inherited a big fortune would you put me too as an example of how lucrative this career is?
- Tsagadai 13y agoSo there are billionaire baseball coaches?
- stephencanon 13y agoIn fairness, there are billionaire team owners, but they didn’t become billionaires by founding baseball teams.