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Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by jodrellblank on Monday September 01, 2025 @05:55PM (#45096967)
I’m not going to strongly defend it but this “doubling my production could only be equivalent to adding one more 1-in-1.5-millionth to the company's value, right?” isn’t true; if your work scales or you are managing people, you could move the needle more - say you launch a new service from scratch.
Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by crossbody on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:21PM (#45097119)
You need to multiple it by the probability of that new service actually succeeding, which is low.

And even then, do you expect it to move stock price by more than 10%? Otherwise it's not going to meaningfully impact your RSU compensation

Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by Muromec on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:42PM (#45097257)
You are correct with regards to amazon. In earlier stage companies, your rsu can 3x overnight once you ship
Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by JustExAWS on Monday September 01, 2025 @08:14PM (#45097784)
In early stage companies - ie private companies - your RSUs are Monopoly money ther will statistically be worthless. In a public company, my RSUs are immediately available to liquidate (which I did).
Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by jodrellblank on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:30AM (#45102231)
I don't need to do that. I contest the claim "doubling my production could only be equivalent" by giving a possible example where it isn't equivalent. That doesn't depend on how likely the example is, only that one (and many) of them could exist.
Re:Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership by Aeolun on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:11AM (#45099650)
You could just work smarter instead of more and have a much larger effect on stock price.