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It's 300k cash, rest in "profit participation". MSFT has enough RSUs to make that happen without it being a problem

Microsoft is known for paying well below Meta and Google, and OpenAI was paying almost twice as much as the aforementioned tech giants.

So I assume it would be weird to have to make every OpenAI employee a VP or Fellow or something.

They aren’t employed by Microsoft but by a company owned by Microsoft which is free to set their own rules