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0 pointsxuancanh2y ago0 comments

He is the co-founder, and he kept the company moving after a huge backlash against the previous CEO. He made some controversial (and bold) decisions like increasing the API price to block out third-party apps, but it seems to work? So yes, he somewhat deserves that compensation.

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oliwarner2y ago

They could have paid me $10m, given everyone a $50k bonus for the crap, and been profitable.

CEO remuneration is out of control when somebody can perform such a beige list of acts and be treated like the Messiah. Mozilla is in the same boat. Such poor value for money.

toomuchtodo2y ago

At least when they’re public someone can buy a few shares to get standing and file a securities civil suit to attempt to rein it in.

andrewinardeer2y ago

$193 million is absurd remuneration no matter how glorious Dear Leader is.

treme2y ago

'bold' as in it was the obvious play after GPTs made reddit conversation archive an easy thing to profit off and protect

dbg314152y ago

Horrible decisions to kill 3rd party apps instead of buying them and having Apollo dev redesign the junky Reddit app.

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