Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter

Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter by jhall1468 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:31AM (#16876177)

Here's past tense: My grants have tripled in value since I started, and as a result my total comp over that period of time has been considerably higher than the offer I received at Google, which was in Mountain View. The higher COL of the Mountain View offer PLUS the outperforming stock put my comp way above what Google would have paid.

When that behavior ends, if Amazon doesn't adjust my comp, I can go to some other tech company, while still having one of the best names you can have on a resume (although, Google would have been arguably better in that case). Furthermore, if we consider my stock gains as part of my annual comp, it gives me a vastly better bargaining position.

Still blowing smoke?

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Re:Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter by hueving on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:47PM (#16879440)

>Still blowing smoke?

Yes, you're not correctly understanding that you depended on a gamble to outperform the Google offer. That same gamble you could have explicitly made in the stock market while taking the Google offer and capturing the upside of the Amazon stock.

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