To everyone complaining about the $250K (see edit, it's actually 200K) per person in salary (which seems to be everyone at the moment), a few things to keep in mind:
1) That includes benefits
2) They are in Silicon Valley and have to compete with everyone else in Silicon Valley
3) Given what they have accomplished with such a small team, these are probably high caliber people.
4) In SV there is a good 25% premium you pay for engineers with security expertise.
As someone who runs a business and has to hire talent, I can say that I'd consider myself lucky to get such a team for such a great price.
Edit: A bunch of people are saying "why not remote". I think they are in fact mostly remote, but they still have to compete with SV wages because really good people command those wages whether they are here or not.
Edit2: As has been pointed out multiple times, the blog post was not clear, and it is actually 200K per person, all in.
1) That includes benefits
2) They are in Silicon Valley and have to compete with everyone else in Silicon Valley
3) Given what they have accomplished with such a small team, these are probably high caliber people.
4) In SV there is a good 25% premium you pay for engineers with security expertise.
As someone who runs a business and has to hire talent, I can say that I'd consider myself lucky to get such a team for such a great price.
Edit: A bunch of people are saying "why not remote". I think they are in fact mostly remote, but they still have to compete with SV wages because really good people command those wages whether they are here or not.
Edit2: As has been pointed out multiple times, the blog post was not clear, and it is actually 200K per person, all in.