Groq薪酬减让救生记：员工以股权换取存活权

Emad (@EMostaque) 转发了 David Senra (@davidsenra) 的帖子： “We were going to run out of money.” Groq was 3 weeks away from death and @JonathanRoss321’s leadership team put together a list of layoffs that also would have killed the company. He realized that the only way to survive was to convince their employees to take a salary cut. The wild story of Groq Bonds: “We had an all-hands and put up World War II-looking pictures of war bonds. We called it ‘Groq Bonds.’” 80% of Groq’s employees participated in exchanging their salary for equity. Half of them went to the statutory minimum salary by law. “Engineers get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. These folks cut their salary down to $50,000 to $60,000.” “By doing this, we put everyone's hand on the steering wheel. They were participating in saving our runway and we had less than 10% attrition. It might've been closer to 5%, which was probably better than our attrition rate before then.” https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2074133143964327936/vid/avc1/3840x2160/_3rMsT3jgoNxsK7-.mp4?tag=28 > **引用原帖 David Senra (@davidsenra):** > A conversation with @JonathanRoss321, founder of @GroqInc. This is the first podcast that Jonathan talks about his $20 billion partnership with NVIDIA. > In this conversation, we talk about his decade building Groq: why West Coast VCs kept passing on the company, how fast Jensen works, overcoming near-death experiences, and why he thinks the entire AI age turns on a single skill — knowing what to ask. > Hope you enjoy this conversation: > 0:00 The $20 Billion NVIDIA Deal Closed In 3 Weeks > 0:25 Why GPUs And LPUs Are Better Together > 1:46 When AI Talks To AI, Speed Wins > 3:30 Always Start With A Hobby Project > 5:55 Ask The Right Questions, Not Answer Them > 8:23 There Are Infinite Ways To Be A Leader > 13:00 I Was One Of The World's Worst Leaders > 14:34 Fewer Constraints, More Room To Surprise You > 16:31 At NVIDIA There Is No Politics > 19:44 You Have To Learn Confidence > 22:23 East Coast VCs Think, West Coast VCs Follow > 23:50 The Keynesian Beauty Contest Of Silicon Valley > 26:48 The Autonomy That Created The NVIDIA Deal > 30:07 Making A Model Smarter By Making It Faster > 34:52 Reality Quotient Beats Intelligence Quotient > 35:44 Find The Dominant Game And Play It > 37:11 A Founder's Job Is Full-Time Change Management > 38:34 Return On Luck: Seize It Better Than Anyone > 42:54 You Can't Sell Speed, You Have To Let People Try It > 46:32 I Intend To: Intentional Leadership > 51:07 Groq Bonds: Trading Salary For Survival > 54:13 Hire For Negatives, Grow For Positives > 58:46 Loss Aversion And Booking The Win Early > 1:00:37 How Michael Jordan Weaponized Humiliation > 1:03:13 Manufactured Discontent Drives Everything > 1:05:02 Every Day Without Compute Has A Real Cost > 1:07:07 Code Was Rationed, Now It's Nearly Free > 1:10:04 Teach Kids To Ask Questions, Not Answer Them > Includes paid partnerships. > https://x.com/davidsenra/status/2073768872688463983