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by alephnerd 753 days ago
> I may be mistaken, but I've never heard of a VC dictating salaries.

We don't exactly (Boards are a thing) but we do give recommendations of decent salary ranges, but then again, serious founders are not going to ask to get paid a Director at Google's salary when they're the CEO of a 5-6 person startup.
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ilrwbwrkhv 753 days ago
Get paid 995_850 for not doing much, whereas startups are much harder and are a lot more work.

Somewhere the inventives are misaligned for sure.

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majormajor 753 days ago
You gotta do a lot to get a director gig at Google.

You might not think it's all useful especially if you're not into the people/politics side (I would agree, personally), but it's not like you can go sleepwalk your way into that job.

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alephnerd 753 days ago
No ones asking you to raise with us. You can be a PM or EM at a company and have an equal impact.

Also being a Director at a company is a hellish role. I remember my Director of Eng at a startup that hired me as a SWE eons ago was working almost 60-70 hour weeks. They were both technical minded AND business minded

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