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> Just blatantly stealing another business's (WP Engine) property/storefront Context: WP Engine is controlled by Silver Lake, a private equity firm with $102 b
by pixxel 2y ago
> Just blatantly stealing another business's (WP Engine) property/storefront
Context: WP Engine is controlled by Silver Lake, a private equity firm with $102 billion in assets under management
- angoragoats 2y agoYour statement is both true and not at all relevant to the parent comment.
- cdolan 2y agoPeople love to hate private equity Somewhere between $1m and $102b you become the enemy
- angoragoats 2y agoYes, sure. It's still not relevant to what the parent comment said.
- kmeisthax 2y agoAddl. Context: Matt Mullenweg was invested in WP Engine before Silver Lake bought him out.
- legitster 2y agoAutomattic is owned by a group of private investors worth trillions of dollars. The "private equity" angle is a rhetorically meaningless point made by an out-of-touch bully trying to put a moralistic spin on his own greed.