AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1400arrow-down110cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-linkI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comAngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squarecrozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 day agoI assumed he hadn’t sold his stock because HP paid a dividend (which could’ve been substantial with all his stock from being there so long). But HP doesn’t. 🤷 Sad story of corporate idiocy. All too common.
minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 day ago“If it wasn’t for my medical leave, HP and Apple would be competing for the mobile market!” It takes a lot of arrogance to be a senior executive; the way he tells the story justifies his position, that’s for sure.
minus-squareexPat17@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·19 hours agoThe story doesn’t add up. June 2010 - Acquisition Late June 2011 - medical emergency July 1 2011 - Product launch He’s saying it’s a great year of development and integration, then in the one or two weeks he’s on bed rest the whole thing falls apart? Come on.
I assumed he hadn’t sold his stock because HP paid a dividend (which could’ve been substantial with all his stock from being there so long). But HP doesn’t. 🤷
Sad story of corporate idiocy. All too common.
“If it wasn’t for my medical leave, HP and Apple would be competing for the mobile market!”
It takes a lot of arrogance to be a senior executive; the way he tells the story justifies his position, that’s for sure.
The story doesn’t add up.
June 2010 - Acquisition Late June 2011 - medical emergency July 1 2011 - Product launch
He’s saying it’s a great year of development and integration, then in the one or two weeks he’s on bed rest the whole thing falls apart? Come on.