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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by panick21_ on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:23AM (#46144736)
One of the issues with founders is that they get really into one specific idea and sink the company, rather then to switch strategy.
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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by idiotsecant on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:06AM (#46147232)
As opposed to shareholders, who ravenously seek to maximize short term profits and sink the company.
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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by arcfour on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:44AM (#46147576)
That's why there are no publicly-traded companies more than a decade or two old. Oh, wait...
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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by delecti on Thursday December 04, 2025 @09:48AM (#46148243)
The comment you replied to was just pointing out that, like how a founder-held company can get stuck pursuing the founder's obsession, a stock market held company can also single-mindedly pursue quarterly gains to the detriment of long-term health.

There are old companies in either model.

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Re:Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gamin... by arcfour on Thursday December 04, 2025 @05:52PM (#46154308)
It didn't say can. It stated it rather definitively, which I wanted to point out the absurdity of.
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