On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
The base salaries of all the top Facebook executives was reveled in the s-1 filing. After the IPO filing on Wednesday the company revealed exactly how much their top execs make and from the look of it you can see how healthy Facebook is. Facebook also said it produced $3.71 billion in revenue last year with most of the revenue coming from advertising on the site, with a profit of $1 billion. So how much does Mark Zukerberg earn in 2011 and the public face of the company Sheryl Sandberg, (COO) actually earn. Here is the breakdown. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO: made a salary of $483,333 in 2011, He also received “other” compensation (Travel, security etc) $783,529, Overall, Zuckerberg received $1,487,362 for 2011 Sheryl Sandberg, COO: had a salary and bonus of $381,966 in 2011, also granted about $30 million in stock awards. David Ebersman, CFO: $381,966 in salary and bonuses. With stock, total compensation comes to $18.6 million. Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering: $333,833 in salary and bo...