nineteenturtles

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   by nineteenturtles 13y ago

   I'm bad at math, anyone know what's 6% of $11.5 billion? In all seriousness, congratulations pg. You've played your cards very well the past 10 years.
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   by nineteenturtles 13y ago

   My biggest question is with the -$95 a month they attribute to the guaranteed resale value. I can't immediately tell how they came up with that.
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   by nineteenturtles 13y ago

   The power law part is why the contribution of the other 99 percent of outcomes to the expected value is close to 0. If, for example, the distribution of outcomes was uniform between 0 and 100 billion, the startup would be worth 50 billion.
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   by nineteenturtles 13y ago

   If the Chinese do human rights violations... I'm not even sure how to respond to that.
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   by nineteenturtles 13y ago

   The salaries he listed were for executives, not coders. If you pay your CEO too much more than $260k, there might be a risk that he/she start worrying about keeping the job (and the high salary) more than growing the company.
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   by nineteenturtles 14y ago

   Makes problems like my code not compiling seem rather small.
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   by nineteenturtles 14y ago

   This is not a pro Zynga blog post. The main point of the story that the OP was highly valued by Zynga, but he left anyway. It details his rapid access to key people and that his old boss begged him to stay (multiple hour convo at boss' hou