How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by raganwald on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:13PM (#338327)

To put things in perspective, Microsoft also paid Jerry Seinfeld something like a million dollars a minute for his on-screen time, or $183,000 a second. $300,000 over three years (almost 95 million seconds) works out to be 1.73162648 nano-jerries. Nice to know what you're worth.

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by ken on Monday October 20, 2008 @09:50PM (#338536)

Good point, but isn't a million dollars a minute more like $16,000 a second, not $183,000 a second? So he's really worth more like 19 nanojerries. Not nearly as bad as you make it sound. :-)

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by raganwald on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @12:31AM (#338666)

A nanojerry here, a nanojerry there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/170.html

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by tspiteri on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:05AM (#338797)

Also, he's counting the on-screen time, not the real time Seinfeld had to give for travel/acting/whatever.

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by raganwald on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:12AM (#338970)

Picasso would say that I'm not counting the decades Jerry spent building himself up to the point where he could earn this payday, nor am I counting the years Tom spent doing the same.

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by bigbang on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:16PM (#338330)

"Nice to know what you're worth."

Should be - Nice to know what Microsoft considers worth

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by raganwald on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:22PM (#338333)

or what I left out "...to Microsoft."

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by abossy on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @01:08AM (#338673)

It's not easy being the most famous comedian in the world.

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by ido on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @07:13AM (#339913)

1 minute on screen probably required a lot more than 1 minute of work though.

Films that lasts 2 hours normally take months/years to make.

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