I find it fascinating how people don't understand why Elon can retain top talent at a fraction of the cost. The calculus is very simple: it's the Elon dividend. It works like this for top talent: 1. Work for Elon at $1-10M/year. 2. You will have for sure the coolest job amongst everyone you know and get forever to tell stories about how you worked with Elon, the most successful entrepreneur of our time and richest man alive. 3. Once you decide to leave after a few years you'll get a huge Elon-bonus from your future employer, aka Elon dividend. 4. You'll be so much more interesting to any future employer if you worked with Elon and they will reward you hansomly for it. 5. Elon will make you rich too anyways. So there is little to lose for you. 6. So, passing up Zuck's or others much bigger comp packages is the smarter move and is why Elon can retain the best and the brightest. It makes sense. The people who can't understand this concept reveal they are too money focused. Top talent isn't purely motivated by money but by their desire to work with the best and brightest and on exciting things and not on making another social media up more addictive.