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"Empirical research on software engineering is a trainwreck"

...and here are some truths from my empirical research.

Nothing new here.

AWS US-EAST-1 has been doing this for years.

First 6 months of this year Gitlab took in $108M in revenue, and had $177M in expenses. Would you pay $10B to own a company that loses $10M/month, with the hopes they will continue to increase revenue in the future and become profitable?

Title should be:

"Companies that pay less than market rates"

I agree it's yours until you sell. We are just debating semantics (does retiring with $14M mean retiring with $14M you can spend, or $14M minus taxes that you can spend).

Also, Capital gains is treated differently than ordinary income.

Your income tax bracket is irrelevant in determining your capital gains rate (at least for now).

I love mid.

Sometimes you don't want the first few characters, or the last few, you just really want the ones in the middle.

I agree.

But a material chunk of the $14M belongs to the government (not available for the individual to spend).

If someone takes out a $2M loan at the age of 58, and retires at 59 (before any of it is paid back), do you think that should be money considered in a retirement calculation?

You should subtract capital gains.

Unless you know of a way to put $84k/year into a roth account.

$1529...you're welcome.

Yours in a world where nothing functions properly.