Why are you being intentionally dense? Compensation in the valley comes in the form of stock options more than anything else. This is like saying someone slightly less consequential to google than Jeff dean or Sanjay ghemawat should be happy with $50 million for giving a large portion of their lives to the company. Are you guys smoking something?

Most child prodigies don’t even work in corporate America and a lot of them don’t care for wealth. They’d rather go into theoretical physics or pure math.