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What's even the risk?

If the CEO of Google gets fired, he just ends up as the CEO of another Fortune 500 company.

If he can't even land that role, he can just go around pocketing $50k/event speaking fee. Of course, that's only if he doesn't want to degrade himself by taking on a VP-level role at another Fortune 500 company.

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No need to find a new job, 4% interest @ 225M USD = 9M USD yearly.

Oh, it's even better than that. This is just his compensation for last year. Add all previous years to it, plus stock he owns. Plus, the ability to get low interest loans which he can spend acquiring more assets.

> This is just his compensation for last year.

$218M of it is a stock grant on a 3 year schedule, so no, it is not.

He's already a billionaire I think. 225M is just the fresh grant's value.

Guys like that will just go and manage their money when they leave. Investments in various things, no real need to do much.

Heck, at Sundar Pichai’s compensation, you can blow through $1M a month, never invest a dime, and still live out the rest of your life.

226M / 50k ~ 4000 events a year. Poor fellow couldn’t pull that off.

Bold to assume anybody needs $226m a year to live.

I dunno. Big arse yachts tend to need staff and maintenance. :)

Why would he possibly need 226M/year? Believe it or not, most of the world manages fine with (much) less than 1M/year.

That's where he can utilize HoloLens and Apple AR virtual appearances.

It's triennial.

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