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

23 points by throw_1245 ↗ HN
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 :-)

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bmelton
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
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
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
Apparently the IPO has created 1600 new millionaires:

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

United857
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
I would like to know about this as well..
snapoutofit
Yeah, this would be interesting to know. What employee wealth was generated? Why are these numbers hardly published?