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Nobody is complaining about founder pay. The complaint is about publicly traded companies being subjected to elite capture by parasitical execs.

Satya Nadella is not a founder. But during his tenure the value of MSFT went up by 10x. I'd say he's well worth his compensation.

Those are founders but this is an external hire at a later stage not really the same.

The story I linked is actually a cofounder.

That is true. Elon Musk has greatly affected the stock price of the Company Formerly Known as Twitter.

Since Musk took it private, the stock price is not known.

It has public shareholders like Fidelity, so they do report what they value it at. I don't remember what it is, but it's at least 1/3 marked down.