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Tech shareholders want executives to take risks building new products. Of course they’d prefer the products be successful but if the options are “hire 30k peopl
by HDThoreaun 7mo ago
Tech shareholders want executives to take risks building new products. Of course they’d prefer the products be successful but if the options are “hire 30k people 50% chance we have to lay them all off” or “don’t build new products” most tech shareholders want option 1.
- dominotw 7mo agowhere do you pull 50 percent number for oracle?
- HDThoreaun 7mo agoEven if the number is 10% they want the company to take risks. Big tech shareholders number one goal is not becoming IBM
- dominotw 7mo agoanyone can get any random shower thought funded by this logic. Thats not how investing works.
- HDThoreaun 7mo agoThen why dont executives got punished by investors when they take risks and fail? The answer clearly is that investors want the risks to be taken and understand the downside that comes from taking risks.
- dominotw 7mo ago> Then why dont executives got punished by investors when they take risks and fail? they do?
- kasabali 7mo agoI mean, as an outsider, this is exactly how it seems to be working.