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Including or excluding stock based compensation expense?

Ok, I will be the usual HN contrarian. $366K net profits per employee at the scale of Google isn’t that impressive. Especially as a software , service company which hold arguably a monopoly.

Capitalism at its finest

> 366k in profit per person

Which drives home the need to cut compensation costs. Three sixty in available spend relates to about a $180k salary. Below market. And that's assuming we're zeroing out shareholders. (EDIT: Whoops, nvm.)

that's profit after employee compensation costs.

That's net profit after they already paid everyone.

This is profit, not revenue. It already accounts for salaries.

I misread gross profit. My bad.

You read what you wanted to see, didn’t you?

Everyone does this including you.

“ Trade private equity in technology companies. Former aerospace investment banker and before that, algorithmic equity derivatives trader. FinTech + Space + Materials seed investor."

Your bio makes this legitimately so much funnier.