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For any company it makes sense to hire someone as long as they bring more revenue than cost. FAANG have millions of things they could improve to drive more customers.

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I don't think it does? Theres questions on what else the business could have done with that money, like collect interest.

There's also a question on what drives faang valuation. Each person might have to be increasing the average profitability of all the things the company does -- google shuts down profitable stuff because it doesn't move the google sized needle

In order for someone to be willing to pay you interest they have to have some kind of direction in mind that they expect will return more money than the cost of the interest. If they have a solid plan that is worth investing in, why not pursue it yourself and reap all of the rewards? Management of that might be unrealistic at individual scale, but when you're the size of Google you can go off in all kinds of different directions without much impact.

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