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A little under two years ago I got offers from both Facebook and Google. The Google offer was a lot bigger (including in stock, the break even point was a valuation of 50 bln), but I accepted the Facebook offer instead, because I knew I'd only get to work on the kind of infrastructure projects I wanted to work on at Facebook. Bootcamp beats the hell out of preallocation for things like this.


> The Google offer was a lot bigger (including in stock, the break even point was a valuation of 50 bln)

That is close to FB's valuation (40bn today) now....


The break even point for buying the stock options was a $50bn valuation. Current Google market cap is $225bn. That's a big upside.

The market cap of FB is irrelevant to the valuation of Google stock options.




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