> their TC is now $900k
As a community we should stop throwing numbers around like this when more than half of this number is speculative. You shouldn't be able to count it as "total compensation" unless you are compensated.
As a community we should stop throwing numbers around like this when more than half of this number is speculative. You shouldn't be able to count it as "total compensation" unless you are compensated.
The number is as real as someone else is willing to pay for them. Plenty of VCs willing to pay for it.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/openai-insider-stock-sales-a...
OpenAI heavily restricts the selling of its "shares," which tends to come with management picking the winners and losers among its ESOs. Heavily, heavily discount an asset you cannot liquidate without someone's position, particularly if that person is your employer.