Almost every average to high performance employee captures less than the value they bring. Companies are not going to pay you 100% of your value as that is always seen as bad deal by the company. They want to feel like they're saving. Why else would you need to negotiate comp?

Long time ago I was just an IC at some company, 5k employees.

Once a quarter or so the local director would buy pizza for our team. Maybe 12 pizzas altogether from a national chain pizza place. Later on "to save money" they said they wouldn't do that. Once a quarter... cost cutting.

So on the appointed day I just bought pizza and told the team to come on down to the break room and enjoy. Maybe $200 in pizza or such, we were going to have our little break as far as I was concerned.

Later some crappy manager complained that I did that, the director was reportedly not pleased. Fortunately nothing came of it, like bro of all the people to complain about ...

Time to automate them with AI and dramatically boost profits!

Just like how WAymo is building the single best AI brain at driving, we need the same for CEOs. One CEO mind to run it all!