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Ask HN: How much did Twitter software developers make during the last few days?
Just wondering about the economics of joining hot startups as a software developer. Assuming you joined twitter as a developer few years back, how much did you real make in stock options? Would be great if people can respond with year of joining and money :-)
- bmelton 13y agoThat's a great question. While I can't even pretend to know the answer as an east coast guy, amusingly, the one friend (real friend, not internet acquaintance) that I have that works at Twitter booked a trip to Guadalajara shortly after the IPO. That might not say anything at all. He might have had the trip planned for a year, for all I know. But I found it humorous, either way.
- claudiomx 13y agoThis is something that I also would like to know, just for curiosity, I don't know anyone that works at Twitter currently, I used to but would be awesome to see what happened after the IPO inside Twitter.
- AznHisoka 13y agoFWIW, I know someone who joined Twitter in 2010, and shortly after the IPO, quit his job and decided to create his own startup.
- cliffcrosland 13y agoApparently the IPO has created 1600 new millionaires: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ipo-created-1600-millionaires-2013-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ipo-created-1600-mill...
- United857 13y agoInteresting, I had heard that Google and FB had about 900 millionaires at their IPOs, and while all three had around the same number of employees (2000-3000) both Google and FB had significantly greater market caps than Twitter. Was Twitter much more generous with their equity grants?
- throwdaddy 13y agoI would like to know about this as well..
- snapoutofit 13y agoYeah, this would be interesting to know. What employee wealth was generated? Why are these numbers hardly published?