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 nanijoe on Monday October 20, 2008 @10:59PM (#338594)

Considering that you sold Gravatar previously, this was probably less of a difficult decision for you than it would have been for many. For others who are 29, married and thinking of starting a family(not saying that you are), a guaranteed > $600,000 (salary + $300k) over 3 years might not be such a bad thing

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by sofal on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @12:09AM (#338647)

Hey, us family men like adventure too! We just can't live in a cardboard box in San Francisco, or pretty much anywhere in California for that matter (my wife was a clarinet major, not a lawyer).

It doesn't take six figures to raise a family, California aside.

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Re:How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time... by qhoxie on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @03:31AM (#338741)

I don't think he was claiming that it was a bad thing, it just was not the best for him given his inspiration from GitHub.

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