The first company that nails self driving tech and gets a self driving car to market is going to make the Ford Model-T story look like a Jamba Juice stand.

What are your thoughts on professional athletes? Writers? Actors? TV talent?

These aren’t run of the mill engineers, these are individuals with PhDs that ran DARPA challenge teams before the tech really existed. Companies are basically investing in an entire platform. Nowadays any engineer looking to get into this field won’t be any where close to being worth that much.