Re:Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS ta...
by HWR_14 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:48PM
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>> what can you possibly do that justifies making $100 MM a year?
> Decide on a course of action for a large company that, over the next few years, makes it $5 billion instead of $4 billion.
That's (assuming it was a unique insight) an improvement of $1 billion to the company, or to GDP. That is a high number, even bigger than 100MM (although you specified years vs. year, but whatever). It doesn't follow that it justifies making $100 MM a year.
> Decide on a course of action for a large company that, over the next few years, makes it $5 billion instead of $4 billion.
That's (assuming it was a unique insight) an improvement of $1 billion to the company, or to GDP. That is a high number, even bigger than 100MM (although you specified years vs. year, but whatever). It doesn't follow that it justifies making $100 MM a year.