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I'm sure when Eric Schmidt was being recruited for Google from Novell[1] he didn't get a pay rise or better share options at all... [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.o

• acchow 13y ago
  Read it again - granted 14.33 million common shares at 30 cents each in 2001. The IPO 3 years later was at $80, opening in the markets at $100 - he made $1.43 billion that morning, in common stock alone.
  • andy_ppp 13y ago
    Yes, I know, I was being ironical Gerry.
    • fixermark 13y ago
      Irony doesn't read well in a text medium among people who may or may not have English as a first language.
      • andy_ppp 13y ago
        Irony doesn't read well, but you see there is a comment by me pointing it out. It's also in the context of the previous answer obvious to most people. Are you suggesting we on hacker news attempt to write comments for the lowest common denominator? I think a lot of people who have English as a second language (American's for example) would still enjoy a bit of irony. :-)