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Wow. Monty made a cool billion from Sun. Why does he need external investors now? How can MariaDB possibly have blown through that epic fortune?
by gaius 9y ago
Wow. Monty made a cool billion from Sun. Why does he need external investors now? How can MariaDB possibly have blown through that epic fortune?
- bpicolo 9y agoSame reason plenty of rich people take investment for their own companies?
- jamesblonde 9y agoHe only made 300m. Us other MySQL employees (about 250) shared crumbs for that purchase (VPs excepted). He screwed us, but he never had respect for us - "people are lazy and greedy" (https://www.pythian.com/blog/mysql-ceo-marten-mickos-interviewed/ https://www.pythian.com/blog/mysql-ceo-marten-mickos-intervi...) . Then he promised he would fix the mistake he made with Maria by being more generous. Ha.
- jacquesm 9y agoFunny use of the word 'only'.
- johansch 9y agoSad to hear that. Being an employee mostly sucks in Sweden. (If you put some (throwaway?) contact email in your profile I'd be interested to trade stories/old gossip via phone over the weekend; it seems like we worked in similar markets over similar times.)
- paraxisi 9y agoHere's the actual interview less the blogspam http://archive.fortune.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysql_greatteams_fortune/index.htm http://archive.fortune.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysq...
- KGIII 9y agoIf you make a fortune and then turn around and invest that fortune into a new project, you no longer have your fortune. Meaning, he's probably limited his investments into the new company.