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Do you know who owned ARM before? It certainly wasn't some nebulous cloud named "Britain". It was mostly large institutional investors in the US. You don't buy
by grabcocque 10y ago
Do you know who owned ARM before? It certainly wasn't some nebulous cloud named "Britain". It was mostly large institutional investors in the US.
You don't buy a company the size of ARM at such enormous expense intending to ruin it.
- snom380 10y agoRuining it is never the _intention_, but it happens often enough that people are right to worry when a company gets bought out.
- nul_byte 10y agoThe timezone differences are going to be an issue. We have a couple of Japanese guys in the same team as me, and its tough going. We have a small window in the morning to align on projects and if we ever need to do face to face meetings, we are all reluctant as its a killer long haul flight where you're guaranteed three days of jet lag.
- nandemo 10y agoTrue, but Japanese companies aren't prone to ruin foreign companies they've acquired by relocating the HQ to Japan. They do so by bringing Japan into the foreign HQ, i.e. the acquiree's top execs are replaced by the acquirer's execs.
- shimon_e 10y agoDon't underestimate humanity's ability to ruin things. :D