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If no one could have gotten better results, I can think of many capable people who could have gotten similar results for a lot cheap. Yahoo! is almost paying MM $400 million and the $110 million exec who stayed about 11 months she fired. For all the Meritocracy talk about general foot soldiers, the SV execs seem to get a lot of "Participation Trophies".

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I would have run the company into the ground for as little as ten million.

She's making more than Tim Cook? No way

My thoughts exactly. IIRC Tim makes around 10 mil per year.

10 mil + ~45 mil in stock grants. Still a pretty good bargain, all things considered.

Steve Jobs took no pay at all for years. If he had played hardball with the board, he could've become the richest man in the world. Tim Cook is not doing it for the money either.

Of course. What do you think this is, a meritocracy?

Don't worry, the privilege of working at Apple makes up for the difference.

But would the have take such a high risk job? its noticeable that risky senior jobs have more Women and BME in post - as under represented groups they feel that they have to take more risks to break thorough the glass ceiling.

How is being the CEO of Yahoo and getting paid 100m+ 'high risk?'

Her presence is now well known. She can work anywhere, and doesn't ever need to work again.

I don't know if you are trolling, but it is high risk because yahoo is a company that is incredibly difficult to turn around. Meanwhile, Apple is already very successful, so you "just" need to keep it moving.

It is not high risk in the sense that you might go broke working as the ceo.

On the contrary he had huge shoes to fill, expectations to match and momentum to carry. Success is not an accident. You can always lose momentum, you can always make the wrong decisions, you can always fail, especially in a company as keenly watched as Apple, holding on to leadership in categories it created, with the pressure of innovation in a hyper competitive industry. Look at Nokia.

You may be referring to the glass cliff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

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