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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.66 [SLACK_000280] · slack_pm:msg:00666

Date: 2020-06-09 15:37
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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"Is he just counting his cash at home?" Yes $30M IPO several years back, plus all the "PREDICT" money - subtractsome minor fraction of that to buy off whatever shares Fair "owned." Wolfe has been paying himself an executivesalary north of $1M per year since at least 2006 plus lucrative bonuses. Little known fact - Fair and Wolfe tried torecruit me back in 2008 - one of the selling points - win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross. So $3M dollar granta kool $600K bonus :parrot:. I still remember a comment Eric Lander made about this several years back. Legal maybe - ethical> you decide. IMO Meta's models are pure bunk - about like the whole Global Virome Projectsham [BTW I think that pic is pretty much as sham too - just my opinion]. But, you know that the only way that a thugmakes money is through "insurance." Ask most of the store owners in any ethnic section of any big city. It wasinevitable that Wolfe would find this path.

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2020-06-09 14:59 Andrew Rambaut open

Bet he makes shedloads of cash and doesn't have to go out and pretend he is saving the world any more.
2020-06-09 15:01 Kristian G. Andersen open

Made it. [shared file(s): Power Couple.png]
2020-06-09 15:02 Andrew Rambaut open

Can you imagine how smug he must look now?
2020-06-09 15:04 Kristian G. Andersen open

I can...
2020-06-09 15:37 Robert F. Garry

"Is he just counting his cash at home?" Yes $30M IPO several years back, plus all the "PREDICT" money - subtractsome minor fraction of that to buy off whatever shares Fair "owned." Wolfe has been paying himself an executivesalary north of $1M per year since at least 2006 plus lucrative bonuses. Little known fact - Fair and Wolfe tried torecruit me back in 2008 - one of the selling points - win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross. So $3M dollar granta kool $600K bonus :parrot:. I still remember a comment Eric Lander made about this several years back. Legal maybe - ethical> you decide. IMO Meta's models are pure bunk - about like the whole Global Virome Projectsham [BTW I think that pic is pretty much as sham too - just my opinion]. But, you know that the only way that a thugmakes money is through "insurance." Ask most of the store owners in any ethnic section of any big city. It wasinevitable that Wolfe would find this path.
2020-06-09 15:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

"... win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross". Holy shit, Bob - we could have retired by now! And live in luxurythat is.
2020-06-09 15:42 Robert F. Garry open

Too boring - yes Nathan does have a yacht- he and his friends sail around - sounds dreadful to me.
2020-06-09 15:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

I don't need a yacht - a little house, a yard, and my Jeep and I'm a happy man. Maybe throw in a lake and a mountain too and I'm a very happy man.
2020-06-09 16:05 Robert F. Garry open

Good man - you get to keep doing real science - more rewarding. Just consider that COVID-19 is going to trigger huge payouts to whomever was "smart" enough to insure with Wolfe's backers in the reinsurance "business." I guessing a pretty stiff test of the Meta business model - stayed tuned.

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