[xuancanh]

He is the co-founder, and he kept the company moving after a huge backlash against the previous CEO. He made some controversial (and bold) decisions like increasing the API price to block out third-party apps, but it seems to work? So yes, he somewhat deserves that compensation.

[oliwarner]

They could have paid me $10m, given everyone a $50k bonus for the crap, and been profitable.

CEO remuneration is out of control when somebody can perform such a beige list of acts and be treated like the Messiah. Mozilla is in the same boat. Such poor value for money.

[toomuchtodo]

At least when they’re public someone can buy a few shares to get standing and file a securities civil suit to attempt to rein it in.

[andrewinardeer]

$193 million is absurd remuneration no matter how glorious Dear Leader is.

[treme]

'bold' as in it was the obvious play after GPTs made reddit conversation archive an easy thing to profit off and protect

[dbg31415]

Horrible decisions to kill 3rd party apps instead of buying them and having Apollo dev redesign the junky Reddit app.