{"id":135976,"date":"2022-02-23T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/crypto-companies-are-tempting-top-talent-away-from-big-tech-to-build-web3"},"modified":"2022-02-23T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:23:12","slug":"crypto-companies-are-tempting-top-talent-away-from-big-tech-to-build-web3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/crypto-companies-are-tempting-top-talent-away-from-big-tech-to-build-web3","title":{"rendered":"Crypto companies are tempting top talent away from Big Tech to build \u2018Web3\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-companies-are-tempting-top-talent-away-from-big-tech-to-build-web3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another thing that\u2019s attracting talent at Big Tech companies to Web3: money.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamblind.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/crypto-salary-bitcoin-coinbase-startup-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blind<\/a>, a social network for tech professionals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BTC.CM=\">bitcoin<\/a> exchange Coinbase offers as much as $900,000 a year for software engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Investment into crypto companies has surged, meaning they\u2019ve got much more cash to spare on lucrative compensation packages for big hires. Blockchain start-ups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/02\/crypto-start-ups-raised-huge-venture-funding-rounds-in-january.html\">raised a record $25 billion<\/a> in venture capital last year, according to CB Insight figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s another thing that\u2019s attracting talent at Big Tech companies to Web3: money. According to data from Blind, a social network for tech professionals, bitcoin exchange Coinbase offers as much as $900,000 a year for software engineers. Investment into crypto companies has surged, meaning they\u2019ve got much more cash to spare on lucrative compensation packages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,3818,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-blockchains","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}