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Re: $20 million enough
Posted by compaqted (more from compaqted) on Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:10:08
In Reply to: Is $20 million enough to bother starting the new job?, saw, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:20
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Just to play devil's advocate, he is getting $20M to run a company with 150,000 employees and $80B in revenue. And the cost of that 15,000 sq. ft home in Palo Alto (probably closer to 30K sq ft) is probably $10-20M anyway.
Yet some baseball players get ~15-20M to *play a game* for 8 months of the year. Toss a baseball around, swing a bat quickly. Then loaf along to first base and allow fly balls to drop in front of them to save the knees.
Hurd got the stock to go up by $2 just by joining. So he just created $6B in increased shareholder value (~3B shares outstanding). That's a pretty decent return on $20M.
Of course, Dave Packard and Walter Hewlett are shaking their heads in heaven. They were happy enough to wander around and see cool things being invented. The money came second.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Is $20 million enough to bother starting the new job?, saw, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:20
- I'll do it for half that if they want to save some $ nm, michael p, Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:16:37
- Re: $20 million enough, compaqted, Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:10:08 <-- Viewing This Message
- And you wonder why HP inkjet cartridges are so, Noel, Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:55:53
- I wouldn't do it..., Scott Paterson
, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:47:03
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