Ask HN: How much did Twitter software developers make during the last few days?

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by throw_1245 • 13 years ago

23 7 13 years ago

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Just wondering about the economics of joining hot startups as a software developer. Assuming you joined twitter as a developer few years back, how much did you real make in stock options? Would be great if people can respond with year of joining and money :-)

bmelton• 13 years ago

That's a great question. While I can't even pretend to know the answer as an east coast guy, amusingly, the one friend (real friend, not internet acquaintance) that I have that works at Twitter booked a trip to Guadalajara shortly after the IPO.

That might not say anything at all. He might have had the trip planned for a year, for all I know. But I found it humorous, either way.

claudiomx• 13 years ago

This is something that I also would like to know, just for curiosity, I don't know anyone that works at Twitter currently, I used to but would be awesome to see what happened after the IPO inside Twitter.

AznHisoka• 13 years ago

FWIW, I know someone who joined Twitter in 2010, and shortly after the IPO, quit his job and decided to create his own startup.

cliffcrosland• 13 years ago

Apparently the IPO has created 1600 new millionaires:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ipo-created-1600-mill...

United857• 13 years ago

Interesting, I had heard that Google and FB had about 900 millionaires at their IPOs, and while all three had around the same number of employees (2000-3000) both Google and FB had significantly greater market caps than Twitter.

Was Twitter much more generous with their equity grants?

throwdaddy• 13 years ago

I would like to know about this as well..

snapoutofit• 13 years ago

Yeah, this would be interesting to know. What employee wealth was generated? Why are these numbers hardly published?

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