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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by henryfjordan on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:39PM (#18221793)
I'm having a hard time picturing this as anything but standard stock/option grants negotiated per employee.

How do you correlate a particular individual's contributions to profit in software? And even if you could really understand how much value everyone was contributing, how would you ever keep a cooperative atmosphere?

If me sharing a good idea with you potentially costs me money, I'm suddenly going to stop talking in meetings.

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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by meritt on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:05PM (#18222066)
My company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product so calculating their respective contribution and profit-sharing on a per-product basis is quite straightforward.
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