I guess they were trying to poach him from a company that was already paying him enough that he was happy to stay. $1.25 billion is a lot of money, but unless you have extremely high aspirations a far smaller sum is still enough to set you and your entire family up for life.
Which means they think it's worth it. Which is kinda scary, when you think about it. They probably used AI to make it a mathematical certainty that it would be a profitable decision.
I guess they were trying to poach him from a company that was already paying him enough that he was happy to stay. $1.25 billion is a lot of money, but unless you have extremely high aspirations a far smaller sum is still enough to set you and your entire family up for life.
Yeah he was a founder of another AI company, and so presumably this is to compensate for losing his equity. Still though, it’s a wild amount of salary
Which means they think it's worth it. Which is kinda scary, when you think about it. They probably used AI to make it a mathematical certainty that it would be a profitable decision.
Probably not offered in salary but stocks.