I got curious as well, because the craziest party poor me can imagine would clock in at maybe half that, including travel. All I could find:

> The three-day festival in downtown Oakland featured performances by Jay-Z, Anderson .Paak, T-Pain, and Soulja Boy, and brought 8,000 employees from around the globe.

So that'd make it 8.5k per person. Building stages, paying permits, hiring acts like these, I bet that's where it mostly went.

It was an in-person event, so flights, lodging, and food could have easily consumed a lot of that.

Running events is expensive when you have to fly your remote employees in and house them for multiple days.

A gift basket that includes fancy mixed nuts, some luxury soaps, a 96 core Epyc CPU, and a coupon book to local restaurants.