Comments on: Motorola’s Co-CEO Sanjay K. Jha got $104 million last year, you got laid off

By: Socal

Socal — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:49:27 +0000

The headline does nothing to illuminate. I wish people stop ebing jealous about any guy who makes more than them.

Options are not dollars!!

As the good book said, The truth shall set you free.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:32:01 +0000

I broke down his pay, base, options, strike price, the whole thing: http://www.lightreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=217&doc_id=176573&

Bottom line: He’s very well paid, but not without some massive responsibilities.

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:32:34 +0000

I love these headlines, useless.

Yes, he got 100M in OPTIONS, which are worth about 12M now.

Stop trying to make it out like he “walked away” with 100M$, which he clearly didn’t.

If he got that many OPTIONS, and turns the company around and makes money for everyone, including stockholders, then I say let him have it.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:54:42 +0000

We, the car part, was sold in 2006.

By: Jameson

Jameson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:09:59 +0000

Didn’t at some point last year Brown and Jha cut their salaries in half, too? Or did they just forgo bonuses?

And having eaten in the MOTOCFTRA, I cab honestly say that I never saw those guys venture down, but that the chicken salad was pretty choice.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:13:20 +0000

They actually spun out the cellphone division because it was bringing everyone down. Not sure on the balance sheets for the bits of cars and chipsets.

They did lose $3.9 billion last year, so there’s that. Revenue was down two billion as well.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10155431-94.html

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:31:04 +0000

Not that I’m congratulating the guy or anything (Motorola phone sales are so obviously in the shitter) but doesn’t Moto do heaps of other stuff like chipsets and pieces of cars and the like?

Perhaps his $104mill was because he did awesome things with the rest of the business? Or am I being too kind.

I suppose I should go look at a stock chart or balance sheet or something.