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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by andrekandre on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:22PM (#20596758)
yea, that is definitely true that they are compensated very well, but i was thinking in a more “equitable” way considering the insane profits they are generating

if you added say half the profits to employees and half the stock as well, they could become multi-millionaires even sooner.... maybe it’s just my bias, but i feel like if those employees were really empowered by their earnings they would be more entrepreneurial and start all kinds of new ventures

i guess this is just my crazy idea, but it’s something i feel strongly recently... it’s just weird to me to see such huge amounts of capital just sitting there (or being used in buybacks)

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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by alain94040 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:01PM (#20601050)
An engineer at Google started a new ambitious project and the rewards were structured similarly to doing your own startup. After the math was done, his payment added up to $600M.

Anthony Levandowski then left for Uber and the rest is history.

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