Goldman Should Be Flattered By The Sergey Deal

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Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Goldstein suggested there was a possibility that Twinkle Toes Aleynikov had felt he'd been stiffed by Goldman re: compensation (Serge was paid $400,000 as a computer programmer last year), supplemental income from dancing apparently not covering the bills. That's presumably why he left 85 Broad to go work for Teza Technologies, which was set to throw $1.2 million his way before he ran in to some legal issues and was suspended without pay. Rob Cox at BreakingViews is now thinking that, while Teza probably (though not definitely) didn't explicitly tell 'Nikov his take-home was getting tripled with the expectation he'd show up for the first day of work having ripped off his former employer, there might've been some nodding and winking to that effect. If not the secret codes than something, anything from the building that the start-up could've gotten some mileage out of, be it GS pens or Lloyd Blankfein's essence, sucked out by Serge during one dangerous (but worth it) mission to the men's room. And if you think about it, instead of getting their panties in a bunch over a coupla jacked megabytes of data, the Masters o' the U should be looking at this whole thing as a source of pride. Everybody wants a piece of their shit.

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