LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees

Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees by boling11 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @09:02PM (#11214567)

$1500 is certainly exciting for a lot of people! Really, if someone gave you $1500 off the street, would you be like, "is this exciting?"

Applaud him for doing something good. $14m is a lot of money for any individual to shell out and $1500 is "exciting" to most normal people.

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Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees by stegosaurus on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:00AM (#11216104)

I think you've missed my point a bit here -

I'd be excited if someone arbitrarily gave me $10 off the street.

My employer giving me a bonus of that amount would be different though, because the nature of the relationship there is very different - I give up a large part of my life to work there.

I'm mostly just asking whether $1500 is significant at LinkedIn - you seem to think I'm making the claim that it's not. Whether it'd be useful for the average person is not that relevant (because it's not applying to them).

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Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees by nonuby on Thursday March 03, 2016 @02:46AM (#11215548)

Does it come with the catch that I have to join his professional network? Do people working at LinkedIn have to use LinkedIn? I always wondered the same about Facebook, some awesome engineering challenges but many techies I know, including myself, have zero desire to have a facebook profile

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Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees by pc86 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:09AM (#11216872)

I imagine they check but I also imagine you won't be disqualified because you don't have a profile.

Why does the YC application ask for your HN username?

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