I think what you wrote I found to relate to something I think about often - what is success? To an MBA, selling off all the IP, selling it off, divesting of ke

I think what you wrote I found to relate to something I think about often - what is success? To an MBA, selling off all the IP, selling it off, divesting of key assets and leasing them back, while owning a portion of the relationship at the end is success, treating sales as the most key part of the business process. To an engineer, in-sourcing, building up strong engineering, R&D, recruiting strong engineering talent, and optimizing product for tradeoffs, treating the output of products itself as the most key part of the business process. Lisa Su has done just that - if you create the best product based on the best engineering, the buyers will come.