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as the op says - they could have issued stock instead of real money
by xchaotic 5y ago
as the op says - they could have issued stock instead of real money
- duped 5y agoEquity schmequity, and we don't know what Borland did or didn't offer to keep people around. We just know MS offered more.
- zepto 5y agoWe know for sure that Borland didn’t offer enough. And we can reasonable speculate that they didn’t offer a significant ownership stake.
- speedgeek 5y ago"Stock Instead of Real Money" is my new band name. So much meaning in just five words :)
- bitwize 5y agoI call equity "Bison dollars": https://youtu.be/Shxiy7l5b_4 https://youtu.be/Shxiy7l5b_4 It's only worth anything if the world-domination plans go off without a hitch.
- FpUser 5y agoAnders got 3mil signing bonus. Hard to counter that.
- zepto 5y agoEasy - give him 4 mil in equity. On the other hand if the company doesn’t have good prospects, then indeed there is nothing you can do.
- FpUser 5y agoPersonally I would rather take cash.
- zepto 5y agoYou would likely think differently if you cared about the product and had invested time in developing it. Having said that, there is no evidence their developers felt differently to you.
- FpUser 5y agoI do almost nothing but develop products. However as product becomes mature I start looking for new things to do. Also maintenance of mature product requires different type of people, not inventors.
- zepto 5y agoObviously this isn’t how Anders Hejlsberg, who invented and then ‘maintained’ C# for a decade thinks about things.
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