Re:In defense of the Google Chef (2011)
by epi8 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:58AM
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That's a little unfair. I work at an 30-year-old engineering company with the most market share in our field. If my company goes down, that's probably because someone did something illegal, or entire economies of multiple countries have just bellied-up. I take very minimum risks in that regard. A new start-up, though? Much higher risk of failure.
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It's not unfair at all.
Running a restaurant is like running a startup only you don't get to a point where it just runs itself. And with low margins it's most often not even a good business either. In fact the better quality the lower margin.
Talk about taking a risk.
I have no problem with the chef getting 20mio, what I have a problem with is the claim of risk as if he is risking anything anyone else isn't.
Re:In defense of the Google Chef (2011)
by Iftheshoefits on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:55AM
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Your risk isn't that the company goes belly up, it's that internal politics churns in such a way that you find yourself the next victim of a witch hunt, that your unit's contribution is identified as having become obsolete or lacking to the point where it's time to cut, etc.
Your risks aren't minimum; they're different.