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If you're that one person who can do that one Facebook thing I'm sure you can get way more that $1M and I think that's good.

But I don't think that's about optionality. That's about the actual value of your skill, and its scarcity.

Optionality is more like: Google would probably hire you do CRUD apps because you went to Stanford and passed our Google-like interview when we hired you to do CRUD apps, so we will pay you what we think it costs for you to not go do that at Google. Dave over here went to SF State and was hired before the algo-interview craze; no chance Google will hire him, so we can and will pay him less even if he makes better CRUD apps than you do.

If I, your hiring manager, also went to Stanford I will pay you even more because I sure think I have high optionality! And if my manager went to Stanford then all the better because he will immediately understand why you need more than Dave. Which, in the end, is true: Dave's still here, right?