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How Jeff Bezos makes ends meet on an $82,000 salary

Less than a week after Forbes sang the praises of his "modest $82,000 annual base salary," Jeff Bezos cashed in another 2.15 million shares of his Amazon.com stock, adding another $168 million to an earlier $135 million sale to boost his take for the last three months to a cool $300 million-plus. Not forgetting those less fortunate, Jeff also set aside 252 Amazon shares, or about .01 percent of last week's sales, for donation to a nonprofit.
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11:20 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jackson West
1,024 views, 5 comments

Latest by boomzilla: @sggrf - Jeff is one of the most likable people I've ever met. Down to earth, humble and dedicated to more »

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Larry Ellison is overpaid, while Steve Ballmer is unmotivated

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, thinks Larry Ellison, his equivalent at Oracle, is overpaid. Ballmer says of Oracle's compensation: "I find it interesting and probably not that considered a decision to do what [Oracle have] done." (Ellison received about $74 million, while Ballmer received less than a million dollars.) Which is probably true, but I doubt Ballmer would be talking about it if Microsoft's own compensation committee hadn't said that he's "probably underpaid." Or if he wasn't already worth $15 billion, thanks to his holdings of Microsoft stock. Ballmer thinks increasing the value of his 4 percent ownership of Microsoft is enough motivation — but why is the CEO even bringing up the issue? More »

3:29 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Tim Faulkner
1,096 views, 4 comments

Latest by Owen Thomas: @Tim Faulkner: I think you and David Quiec would both agree that one does not ignore stock splits; rather, one more »