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Only works if you don't give employees stock, which in turn only works in old industries like this.
by pg 18y ago
Only works if you don't give employees stock, which in turn only works in old industries like this.
- davidcummings 18y agoSAS 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 agoIt'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.)