You know, I think I prefer to live in a world where giant tech companies occasionally act in strange, irrational ways that result in random people getting multi-million dollar windfalls.
Especially if said people vaguely resemble, well, me. That being, entrepreneurial software folk running companies with trivially buildable products. That's the sort of person in my mind that should have as many foolish megacorporations as possible stumbling over one another to randomly dump tens of millions of dollars in cash upon them.
Given the alternative world, where all companies behave rationally at all times and nobody ever makes mistakes that could possibly make, say, me a gozillionaire overnight, I think I'll keep living in this world.
Keep up the good work, Yahoo!
[Disclaimer: I own a small pile Yahoo stock (that made me a bunch of money in the 90's and has been taking it steadily back ever since), so I probably lost a few hundred dollars because of this particular deal. I'm happy to pay it, much as people who buy lottery tickets are happy to pay it. Having a crazy, aquisition-happy company out there doing its thing is more than worth the price]
>You know, I think I prefer to live in a world where giant tech companies occasionally act in strange, irrational ways that result in random people getting multi-million dollar windfalls.
You're in luck, that happens all the time with executive compensation packages.
Especially if said people vaguely resemble, well, me. That being, entrepreneurial software folk running companies with trivially buildable products. That's the sort of person in my mind that should have as many foolish megacorporations as possible stumbling over one another to randomly dump tens of millions of dollars in cash upon them.
Given the alternative world, where all companies behave rationally at all times and nobody ever makes mistakes that could possibly make, say, me a gozillionaire overnight, I think I'll keep living in this world.
Keep up the good work, Yahoo!
[Disclaimer: I own a small pile Yahoo stock (that made me a bunch of money in the 90's and has been taking it steadily back ever since), so I probably lost a few hundred dollars because of this particular deal. I'm happy to pay it, much as people who buy lottery tickets are happy to pay it. Having a crazy, aquisition-happy company out there doing its thing is more than worth the price]