The premise of this article seems to be that the researchers at Windsurf have been able to learn amazing things thanks to near unlimited VC money, increasing their value to astounding numbers.

That may be true (although I doubt the numbers add up). But what is keeping those researchers from walking away, or underperform whenever they feel like it? Giving them a lot of money surely isn't going to motivate them to work harder.

It's probably giving them access to one of the world's largest clusters of compute that lures them in.

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trashtensor 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Giving them a lot of money surely isn't going to motivate them to work harder.

isnt that the reason we give ceos lots of money?

	▲	k1t 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		CEOs are given money to make them feel important. They are given stock awards to encourage them to improve the value of the business. How hard they work is irrelevant.

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IshKebab 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Retention bonuses maybe?