Ethan Evans

And and so then what I would say is I would say, hey, Cody, we just had some great results on the XYZ project.

And I really appreciate the feedback you gave me.

And what I'd like to do is I'd like to grow my career and know how I can deliver more of that from you.

And as a part of that, I'd hope that I could get a promotion and, you know, a significant equity and compensation increase.

Could we talk about what I could deliver where that would make sense for you?

Yes.

They have all kinds of rigidity.

levels and who are you comparing to and how many people do we need at that level and salary bands.

You're freed of all of that.

If someone's super valuable and you think they're worth 20% more or for that matter, three times as much, you can make that decision as the owner.

Oh, I would say one thing they don't understand at big corporations is how much variability there is.

So one thing I did that Amazon wouldn't like, but I was playing both sides, advocating for my employees.

I had an employee who was making less than half what was possible in his role.

And he got an offer from another huge company.

So we were at Amazon.

He got an offer from Meta that was a big raise.

But I knew we could match it.

And so I just coached him and said, look, you got to ask for this and show your other offer and we'll get it for you.

So bottom line, and these are big numbers.

He went from making about $300,000 to making about three quarters of a million in one jump.