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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by onion2k on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:02PM (#31531934)
I used to work for Amazon. I did not give Jeff Bezos $100,000. In fact, I actually made money out of the deal.

If you were a fairly senior SWE then customers gave Amazon a few million dollars for the work you did. Jeff got $2.8m, you $200k. On paper it's unfair, unreasonable, and unbalanced, but you agreed to it, and without Jeff you would have earned less. Maybe it's fine.

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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by philwelch on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:56PM (#31532631)
> If you were a fairly senior SWE then customers gave Amazon a few million dollars for the work you did.

This was early in my career, and I didn't work on anything customer facing, but there's still no guarantee of that. What if I'd worked on the Fire Phone?

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