Comment by e_y_
3 years ago
There are CEOs that get paid a lot more than $5M/year in stock. Arguably that's also ridiculous, but it's certainly possible that paying a team of 20 highly skilled engineers $5M/year each brings more value to the company than paying a CEO $100M a year.
$20M in startup stock is not the same as $20M in Apple stock. I can totally believe OpenAI paying that figure on paper. You’d need to adjust the number for risk though