If gurufocus is to be believed, he owns approx 1.76M shares. GOOGL closed at $98, up $5 today. Not bad for causing more hardship and pain on a +$100B reserve balance.
Every googler who got laid off today that owns google shares made the same % in earnings today. This doesn’t matter.<p>The goal is to increase shareholder value. And most of the increase today was due to macro market trends and not due to the layoffs (everything went up today)
Just off the cuff guessing but 12000 people cost $1.2 to $4.8 billon a year<p>Google has 180k people, minus 12k = 168k. That means their burn rate is 16.8 to 84 billon a year<p>I'm speaking out of my ass because I don't know the average salary and overhead of a google employee but the low numbers assume $100k a year no zero overhead.<p>Please check my math<p>12000 * $100k = 1.2 billon<p>168k * $100k = 16.8 billon
If we follow the assumption that he is responsible for this stock movement, then he made 8 million dollars today and yet made investors 27,000 million dollars - creating 3,300x more value than captured.
You're mixing issues, though. He (and other CEOs, and other execs) will make a shit-load of money for very little "hard work" every day of the week, even while making bad or terrible decisions. There was nothing ever "fair" about exec compensation, if that's what you ever hoped to find.
They are unrealized gains, but yeah, his net worth increased 20,000x more than the average comfortable SV tech worker today.<p>This is $666.666 repeating USD per person laid off from $GOOG. Make of that what you will.<p>Seems like a lot.