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Carmack is an employee, primarily writing code. The company is owned and run by other people.
by dangerlibrary 11y ago
Carmack is an employee, primarily writing code. The company is owned and run by other people.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoHe had a huge amount of buy-in/ownership when he was brought on board and certainly had some level of executive decision making. I doubt he just gets a 1099 for $market_wage and goes home. He's swimming in stock and other perks. You don't hire him to sit locked in an office all day and not have say in your organization.
- dangerlibrary 11y agoYou hire him because he's been writing 3d graphics code for longer than literally anyone else on the planet.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoHis is the CTO. That is not a coder monkey position, yes he probably codes and supervises a lot but he's C-level and that means executive decision making.
- Rapzid 11y agoJohn Carmack, CTO of Oculus, probably has a few responsibilities that could be viewed as "running the company", at least in part.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoHe stated publicly that he didn't have much if anything to do with the facebook acquisition.