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Oh come on, no sane person is arguing that Elop went the Microsoft route _because_ he's a big shareholder. The reason people bring up the issue of the stock he
by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Oh come on, no sane person is arguing that Elop went the Microsoft route _because_ he's a big shareholder. The reason people bring up the issue of the stock he owns is to point out that not only his decisions at Nokia are mostly consequence free for him personally, but he also stands to benefit handsomely form this decision that many argue is very bad for Nokia and very good for Microsoft.
The scrutiny in this case comes directly from the fact that Elop's actions at Nokia are very much Microsoft centric, and arguably Microsoft serving.
- thorax 16y agoThere is absolutely no way he could have made such a move without the board's blessing; perhaps it was even their expectation that bringing him in would improve a deal they wanted to make with MS. I don't understand at all why you'd hint that this is "Microsoft serving" when it is clearly the will of the board of directors that this happen for Nokia.
- saturdaysaint 16y ago"He stands to benefit handsomely" No he doesn't. WP7, even under the best case circumstances, will have limited impact on Microsoft stock. People with tens of millions of dollars are connected to far better investment opportunities than making a stock bump up in value a few percentage points.