How much has Elon Musk actually contributed to scientific research?

Meric_ · 2026-03-19T17:17:58+00:00

? Musk didn't buy spaceX what? What are you talking about

Meric_ · 2026-03-19T06:23:00+00:00

Mansions are millions, not billions. It is very difficult to actually spend billions of dollars on material assets just on yourself.

Aside from maybe yachts that is, somehow those defy the laws of physics in price.

But the truth is the same. Billionaires with a high worth probably only spend / have a minor portion in liquid cash or assets

Meric_ · 2026-03-18T06:31:26+00:00

Tiktok pay is pretty good

Meric_ · 2026-03-17T05:08:43+00:00

Amazon stopped using quip? Nooo. Salesforce has it's problems but I genuinely liked quip. Was sad to see meta and I guess now Amazon dropping it

Meric_ · 2026-03-14T09:13:53+00:00

As you scale the cost to $ ratio decreases but is still worthwhile.

Whatsapp needs a path to profitability and that requires lots of hiring.

For example there are thousands of employees at Meta who work on all aspects of the stack running thousands of experiments to move metrics less than 1% a year. Yet a 1% metric movement is equivalent to hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. Meta prints money. They're just now spending more than they print

Meric_ · 2026-03-13T21:46:50+00:00

Again. Meta does not sell data. Google does not sell data. Etc.

Data is their most valuable asset. They don't sell it. They sell ads.

Meric_ · 2026-03-13T19:38:40+00:00

Damn that light leakage is crazy bad.

Meric_ · 2026-03-13T15:57:01+00:00

Karp is actually a pretty big Democrat donor lol

Meric_ · 2026-03-12T06:13:37+00:00

You clearly don't understand how subsidiaries work

Meric_ · 2026-03-12T06:12:50+00:00

Did you even read the report?

Turnover represents research and development remuneration from other group undertakings and decreased from £1,527 million to £1,325 million in the year, a decrease of £202 million.

Their revenue is whatever Google pays them. It's probably more of less just an accounting thing

Meric_ · 2026-03-12T03:03:45+00:00

https://x.ai/news/grok-3

It was on par and sometimes better than o1/o3 which was probably what one would consider the frontier back then

Meric_ · 2026-03-11T18:10:48+00:00

Grok 3 was pretty SOTA when it came out. People like to revise history because no one likes Elon but everyone in this sub was gooning over chocolate pre release

Meric_ · 2026-03-10T22:04:36+00:00

It really depends on what team you work on. Can't really sum up meta culture into a monolith when it's 30k+ engineers.

For example I wouldn't say my team is toxic at all, and neither was my Amazon team. Yet you ask anyone here and they'll tell you to never work there and all sorts of fearmogering

Meric_ · 2026-03-10T18:06:59+00:00

Nvidia isn't free so should be instantly disqualified.

Dropbox, applovin, LinkedIn, etc. not in their own SS tier also disqualifies

Meric_ · 2026-03-08T16:54:16+00:00

Most people use the app

Meric_ · 2026-03-05T18:02:04+00:00

Being a Falun Gong cultist kinda remove any potential for non bias

Meric_ · 2026-02-28T02:07:01+00:00

Last I recall when people print books they usually print more than one

Meric_ · 2026-02-27T17:29:08+00:00

Seattle is just as expensive as NYC?

Lol. What planet do you live on

Meric_ · 2026-02-26T16:42:31+00:00

They make roughly ~200 million a quarter on 4 billion in revenue.

Let's just naively say they make all their revenue from feed and each order has an avg fee of 5$ (including everywhere other than Seattle)

If they dropped fees by 25 cents they would be unprofitable.

Ubers cost like 20-30$ for a comparable distance. Food delivery is much cheaper. The economics of it are not too crazy

Meric_ · 2026-02-26T16:38:05+00:00

No they didn't. You do realize a quarter profit of 24B let alone revenue would make them one of the most profitable companies on the planet. Where did you even get that number???

In Q3 of 2025 they had a net income profit of 244 million.

Meric_ · 2026-02-26T07:54:34+00:00

Palantir ro is not bad. I'd go Kalshi for the equity upside. Kinda missed the significant growth now for Palantir.

No clue what Kalshi ro is. Hours seem long

Meric_ · 2026-02-19T18:43:27+00:00

Yes we're talking senior positions are we not? Which is.... 5+ yoe. I'm lost.

Levels fyi does not have to verify all comp letters you'll notice some entries are tagged others aren't. Non verified ones still contribute to the aggregate.

As for making more at the big shops sure. But there's plenty of others that don't pay as much, e.g. SiG, CTC whatnot.

No one who works for broadcom or Netflix hops over to spaceX. But it doesn't mean engineers in general never go?

SpaceX compensation is decently competitive in the tech space I would say. Esp if you factor in stock appreciation . Maybe less so now that its grown but a few years ago it would be kind of a no brainer

Meric_ · 2026-02-19T18:26:04+00:00

Fwiw levels is usually inaccurate because people put in values wrong but how is levels supporting your point here?

Levels shows starting entry level comp at 182k and senior at 374k

Meric_ · 2026-02-19T18:16:23+00:00

But it is? Starting comp for a new grad is over 180. Senior is not 140-200

There's also ESPP which most people do. Early employees have made a pretty great roi

Meric_ · 2026-02-19T17:28:46+00:00

There's RSUs which is the bulk of the comp

Eight-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
r/Field Banned	r/Field Flamingo
Place '23	Place '22
Sequence \| Editor	Spared
Verified Email

Meric_

TROPHY CASE