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The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun

According to this post, Sebastian Thrun said

“Uber has just bought a half-a-year-old company [Otto] with 70 employees for almost $700 million,” “If you look at GM, they spent $1 billion on its acquisition of Cruise. These are mostly talent acquisitions. The going rate for talent these days is $10 million.”

Conclusion: talented researchers in robotics, vision and AI  are worth $10M each to industry!

See more on this webpage
http://www.recode.net/2016/9/17/12943214/sebastian-thrun-self-driving-talent-pool

By the way, if you surf on the web, you can also find this wonderful self-driving model 😉

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