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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries

• pg 18y ago
  Only works if you don't give employees stock, which in turn only works in old industries like this.
  • davidcummings 18y ago
    SAS Institute is the world's largest private software company with over a billion in revenue and no stock options (http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=TIV4YYYRWEGOYAKRGWCB5VQBKE0YOISW?id=HR6 http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/...)
    • pg 18y ago
      It's too bad the use of "the exception proves the rule" in cases like this is a solecism, because this would be the perfect time for it. SAS is the closest thing to an old-style industrial company in the software business. (In "the exception proves the rule," proves is used in the older sense, meaning to test, not the newer sense, meaning to establish.)