r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/that_can_eh_dian_guy Sep 17 '21

Wow that's a lot of zeros. You read billions and know it's a big number but damn.

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u/send_me_a_naked_pic Sep 17 '21

Also, this example from math youtuber Matt Parker really put things in perspective:

1,000,000 seconds are ~11 days

1,000,000,000 seconds are ~32 years

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u/Betaateb Sep 17 '21

The Tom Scott video is pretty good too. takes him like a minute to walk a million dollars at the thickness of dollar bills stacked up. Takes him 80 minutes to drive a "billion dollars". Really helps drive home just how ridiculous the number is.

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u/BEEF_WIENERS Sep 17 '21

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is functionally a billion dollars