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What makes a 500 billion dollar company less likely to do shitty things than a 900 billion dollar company, for any given definition of shitty? Because it’s con
by goatinaboat 7y ago
What makes a 500 billion dollar company less likely to do shitty things than a 900 billion dollar company, for any given definition of shitty?
Because it’s constrained to its niche. Let’s say split search/ads from the rest of Google. It’s still a money-printing machine but what can it spend that money on? It has to pay dividends to shareholders rather than propping up YouTube and GMail and Google Cloud and cross-pollinating data with them. Ditto if any of them become profitable. Shareholders win, regulators win, its good for everyone.
Us split-advocates aren’t just knee-jerks, we have thought about this.