It's generally considered absurd for startups to compete with public companies on pay, but paying roughly twice as much as our startup competitors (all of whom ended up going under very quickly, with the exception of Transmeta, which managed to drag things out for a while due to the massive amount of money raised and won via lawsuit) and getting 30x the productivity seems obviously worth it?
The range in productivity is so much larger than the range in pay that this seems like an easy call?