> Yah. Skype's worked out real good for eBay. And MySpace was a great > investment for Newscorp. The writeoffs they've taken were all in the plan, > right? >
You're confused. Skype shareholders didn't care about eBay, neither did MySpace shareholders about News Corp. That's not their job. Both got handsomely paid. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis first got $2.6 billlion from eBay and then also got a $1.5 billion earn-out. You think they are unhappy that eBay got not much out of it? Complain to Meg Whitman. Skype did what it had to...very profitably. You think Zuckerberg & Co is going to care about what would happen to Microsoft if/when it acquires FaceBook? They care about (and that's what their focus ought to be) their own payoff. I bet the shareholders of your company (with our without a profitable business model) wouldn't mind seeing a $4 billion payoff day. It's the American way. -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
