[bombcar]

>your best move is to do whatever is most profitable in the near-term

Unless you’re a significant shareholder, that’s almost always the best move, anyway. Companies have no loyalty to you and you need to watch out for yourself and why you’re living.

[archeantus]

I read that most of the crazy comp Zuck is offering is in stock. So in a way, going to the place where they have lots of stock reflects their belief about where AGI is going to happen first.

[fragmede]

Facebook is already public, so they can sell the day it vests and get it in cold hard cash in their bank account. If Facebook weren't public it would be a more interesting point as they couldn't liquidate immediately, but they can, so I wouldn't read anything into that.

[bombcar]

Comp is comp, no matter how it comes (though the details can vary in important ways).

I know people who've taking quite good comp from startups to do things that would require fundamental laws of physics to be invalidated; they took the money and devised experiments that would show the law to be wrong.

[LtWorf]

But maybe the salary is also higher?