Hi All,
 
Once people said Steve Jobs in Apple worth about 30% of the share value, which means he cannot leave the company. The come back of legends also happens to Dell founder Michael Dell last year. Not many people are as lucky as Mr. Gates who dedicated mist of his life on charity business.
 
Just like Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt's salary is only $1 in a year. Compare all, seems the greediest one would be Yahoo's CEO Terry Semel, who is earning $71.1million. Last week, in the annual meeting, share holders complained about Yahoo performance against the good paid of Mr. Semel. Then last night, finally the decision is made, they fired Mr. Semel and asked another silicon valley legend Jerry Yang to come back. How much Jerry would be valued, it is about 8% so far, let's see how much for me. (Jerry Yang reminded me that famous movie of Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.) Yahoo has a very good database on user information, which now Google is struggling with EU about their handling of it. Though DoubleClicks has been acquired by Yahoo, I can see it is easier for Yahoo to adopt Google's advertising model than vice versa.
 
Another CEO with a good paid whom I feel worry for is Arun Sarin of Vodafone, who has collected 7.27million GBP last year. Though everyone is happy about the current doing of Vodafone amid the sales of Softbank for 9 billion pounds, and then returned that money to share holders, share price has climbed from $20 to now $32.3, the EU has just signed to push operator to lower their roaming fee within EU. That for me would be serious revenue hit for European operator like Vodafone. How many more tricks does Mr. Sarin have? Selling Verizon? Opening operator in Vietnam, which DoCoMo is also eyeing on? Hope he would have better luck than Mr. Semel has.
 
Cheers,
Eric
(I am still holding Google and Yahoo and puts of Vodafone and Verizon)