c/pics · by Wudi@feddit.uk · 90d

This is Hock Tan. CEO of Broadcom. Last year, he was paid $205.3 million.

According to Reddit, he doesn't even wash his hands after going to the bathroom.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1b2awqx/broadcom_ceo_pay_award_jumps_164_to_1608_million/

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SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 90d (5 replies)

It's wild that CEOs make more than a few million a year let alone hundreds.

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 90d (4 replies)

and can single handily ruin a product like VMware overnight

I've never seen so many companies abandon something so quickly. I'm glad we will never do any business with broadcom. literal shithole to deal with

ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 90d (3 replies)

I worked in sales at VMware before and during the switch over.

We were told they didn't care how we did it, but we needed to get over 300% more from out customers. And when someone on a call asked how we could do that without driving away customers, we got an evil Bond villain laugh and the question, "What are they going to do, switch to someone else?"

0ndead@infosec.pub · 21 pts · 90d

Narrator: And they did.

zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 90d (1 reply)

Benevolently Laughing as I install proxmox

mojo_raisin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d

Eye twitching as I send JSON to the host QMP socket and launch my QEMU VMs.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 90d (3 replies)

That's ~$100,000/hr. How can a board of directors justify this expense? How has the entire C suite not been luigied?

Mac@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 90d

They work really hard 🥺

Wudi@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 90d

How can a board of directors justify this expense?

Because they are also getting lavishly paid.

I have been on 20 public company corporate boards, not counting any Berkshire subsidiaries. So, I’ve seen a lot of corporate boards operate. And the independent directors, in many cases, are the least independent

I mean, if the income you receive as a corporate director â which typically may be around $250,000 a year now, if that’s an important part of your income, and you hope that some other corporation calls the CEO and says, “How’s so-and-so as a director?” and the current CEO â your CEO says, “Oh, he’s fine and never raises any problems,” and then you get on another board at 250,000 and that’s an important part, how in the world is that independent? I mean, I really, just an observation

They’re just not going to upset the apple cart, because what they’re â and I’d probably behave the same way in the same position. I mean, if $250,000 a year is important to you, why in the hell would you behave in a way that’s going to cause your CEO to say to the next CEO, “This guy acts up a little bit too much. You really better get somebody else.” It’s the way it works

- Warren Buffet

(As of 2026, Buffet's estimated net worth stood at $145.9 billion)

krashmo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d

Be the change you wish to see in the world

ccunning@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 90d (1 reply)

I think my company’s VMware licensing fee increase after the acquisition covered the whole thing…

blackwateropeth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d

Also in the industry, everyone I speak to hates what VMware has become

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 90d