You're completely out of touch if you think that. Maybe a SWE/PM with 10 years of experience, but OP is a writer/researcher at a company of one. No one is paying mid-level PR/comms that well. At $250k you're in the top 5% of earners.
In that article, people demean having product with $1000 MRR by comparing to the compensation of FAANG
The opposite happens here. Comments are criticizing OP for worshipping her time at Stripe. OP was working too hard blah blah blah... except that OP was also paid handsomely for her work.
Except you're pulling that out of thin air with no proof and clearly no idea what kind of comp packages the average person has. Stripe isn't even a public company, how do you think she made all that money?
And she joined Stripe in 2015, when the company was already five years old. Whatever equity she received would be a pittance and issued at relatively high strike prices (Stripe had very favorable 409a's), and it's very unlikely for her role and experience level to be worth more than a year-or-two of salary.
Back in 2015, Stripe was worth between 3b and 10b. Right now it was worth 79b.
It is very likely her stock worth way more than a year or two of salary.
Yes, this is stock from private company.
Should we pity her for getting stripe private stock worth millions USD? Oh my god she is so sad right now. I'm crying for her. How is she going make a living?
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