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Re:Why companies lose their best innovators (2019) by roenxi on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:08AM (#23886922)
I'd have made more money buying Zoom at IPO than I would if I held Cisco at the same time but added Zoom to Cisco's market cap. There was a big opportunity here for investors.

Sure Cisco shareholders would have been better off if Zoom was an in-house project, but investors are really the ones who are supposed to be making the value calls on teleconference-or-routers market exposure style decisions. If I'm a Cisco shareholder I don't think management made a mistake. I think I made a mistake not becoming a Zoom shareholder.

Re:Why companies lose their best innovators (2019) by aidanlister on Sunday July 19, 2020 @01:09AM (#23887164)
Okay, you both made a mistake then. Your mistake does not lessen Cisco’s mistake.