Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by kmlevitt on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:37AM (#38344787)

For a quick overview, google Microsoft stock and take a look at what happened to it after he became CEO in February 2014. It had been farting along at $24-35 a share with little lasting change since 2000. As soon as he got involved it started rising stratospherically and is now at about $360. Partnering with openAI turned out to be a brilliant idea that has helped them corner a brand new market. And poaching perhaps half their staff after an unforced error by their board is even shrewder.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by laserlight on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:25AM (#38345337)

February 2014 -> October 2023:

  AAPL: 18.79 -> 170.77 (9.08x)

  MSFT: 38.31 -> 338.11 (8.82x)

  AMZN: 18.10 -> 133.09 (7.35x)

  META: 68.46 -> 301.27 (4.40x)

  GOOG: 30.28 -> 125.30 (4.14x)

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by stoobs on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:43AM (#38345526)

That doesn’t tell the whole story due to stock splits etc changing the unit stock price.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by mdemare on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:02AM (#38345733)

No, stock splits are included.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by stoobs on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:48AM (#38346684)

I stand corrected :)

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by cma on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:02AM (#38345728)

Need to account for splits and reinvesting dividends.

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