Legend has it that the 10x engineer is a distinguished engineer and Turing Award laurette that uses 6+ monitors simultaneously at home/work, solves team blockers on the first meeting (Hence why they hate meetings), writes ground breaking research papers in their sleep and also hacks on the Linux kernel in their spare time. /s

Now if we could try to hire this person in a startup, how much compensation should we give them to stop going else where?

More than your first seed round. /s