Comment by dragonwriter
3 years ago
> I can see $5M per person being possible. $20M is the absurd part. 5 years with such a comp leads one to a net worth that is borderline filthy. Like elite, world renown athletes and actors level of wealth.
5 years at $20 million equals the highest paid FIFA player’s single year pay (or Tom Cruise’s pay for one movie, Top Gun: Maverick), or about two years of the highest paid NFL players, so it won't catch up the their wealth over that time (assuming similar lifestyle) as its losing ground to them every year.
(And the claim was total, not per person, salary, anyway.)
Highest paid is a different metric though. Highest paid AI person is probably Ilya Sutskever who owns a good chunk of OpenAI and is worth billions
Those are highest salaries, they don’t include capital returns. Unsurprisingly, people make 7 figure salaries in sports, and who have been doing so for more than a few years, often have significant capital returns, as well.