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Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by gumby on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:37AM (#50351265)
Robbing shareholders? That same mentality justified Ballmer’s decision to replace free coffee with paid coffee machines. Which marked the beginning of a long decline for MS: an increased stock price but long term internal atrophy.

The shareholders benefit when the employees have an incentive to do good work.

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Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by Schiendelman on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:40AM (#50351304)
What paid coffee machines? (I was MSFT 2001-2013, I don't think I ever saw this).
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Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by solyin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:54AM (#50351432)
It wasn't Microsoft.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/

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Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by wtch98 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:53AM (#50351985)
People who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

That's fine when they are accountants, it's important to tell the decision makers the costs. The decision makers know the value.

The problem is when the decision makers don't know the value.

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