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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by crdoconnor on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:45AM (#9770398)
>So if you spend 10 years building a company and then sell it for 10 million, you think that you should only get to keep 1 million(ish)?

Of course. By the time you're selling it, most of the actual value is being created by people beneath you.

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Re:Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says by landryraccoon on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:09PM (#9773779)
Wait what? Two friends of mine sold a company for $10M last year, that was like them and 4 other employees, and the (technical) founders easily did more than half the work..
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