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Re:Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007) by IMTDb on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:39PM (#30850969)
More accurately: If me and me friends lemonade stands makes $1 million on it's own and your lemonade stands makes $1 on it's own. We bring them together and make $1.1 million because we had an amazing product and you are an amazing sales guy (yay!).

How do we divide the extra $100k. Are you pretending that you should get $50k (50 thousands times what you were doing alone) and we should get $50k (1.005 times what we were doing without you) as well ? That does not seem very fair to me at all.

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Re:Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007) by fragmede on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @11:44PM (#30851295)
Some of that extra $100k should probably go to the company, but sales is maybe not the best example because salespeople are quite often paid on a base+commission basis and would easily get a fixed percentage of all of their sales for the year. It seems high for sr engineers to make $500k/yr but it should be noted that senior sales people can also make $500k/yr if they're doing well!
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