Please don't call my point bullshit because that's horseshit plus we aren't her, so everything here is simply personal perspective.
I think you're completely wrong, maybe you dont know what youre talking about (by not being at exec mulit m position). You judge compensation from your perspective.
My argument is: you forgotten (financial) starting point of her. Jump to yahoo didnt increase her situation x7 (capital) and this is currently widely believed change which must happen to individual to have permanent happines increase because of financial change (inducing financial backed motivation). She for sure is aware of how it works.
That being told your argument against that success and image is not important to her is wrong. It is much more important to her than money compensation.
> I wouldn't want to go to another job with little accomplishment in my previous job. I just feel shit if I do.
Bullshit. Most people would be fine feeling a little shitty for a few years for THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
This theory that somehow executives are motivated "differently" is totally bonkers. They're just as selfish and short sighted and apathetic as you or me, but they're playing at the high-roller table with other people's money.