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It's amusing to correlate "new campus" with "stock drop" in the history of Silly Valley. Atari, Apple, Sun, Cisco . . . these companies all had significant har
by kabdib 14y ago
It's amusing to correlate "new campus" with "stock drop" in the history of Silly Valley.
Atari, Apple, Sun, Cisco . . . these companies all had significant hard times about the time they started large new sets of buildings.
- cpeterso 14y agoSGI built a new campus (now the Googleplex) in 1998, the same year they announced they were switching from their own MIPS processors to Itanium and shipping Windows NT workstations. In 2005, SGI was delisted from the NYSE.
- vlad 14y agoSounds like the Skyscraper Index, an interesting observation that many of the world's tallest structures were built right before the economy headed into recession. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index