Saturday, November 19, 2005
Expensive cardsBack in July, Microsoft sued Google and Kai-Fu Lee when Lee left a senior executive position at Microsoft to join Google and lead a new research group they are starting up in China. One of the depositions made during preparation for the trial was made by Mark Lucovsky, another senior engineer who defected from Microsoft to Google in November 2004.
In the statement, Lucovsky recounted that when he met with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss his planned departure, Ballmer asked him to say that it wasn't to Google, but Lucovsky replied that it was. At that point, Ballmer "picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "F***ing Eric Schmidt is a f***ing pu**y. I'm going to f***ing bury that guy. I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google..." After Ballmer calmed down a bit, he tried to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft, arguing that "Google is not a real company. It's a house of cards."
The cards have gotten awfully expensive, probably all aces. Google stock went over $400 yesterday, a better than four-fold jump from its initial public offering price of $85 just 15 months ago. During the same period, Microsoft stock has been more or less stuck at about $25. It seems that Schmidt is getting buried in more and more money every day. Maybe Ballmer should get a bigger shovel and start digging a lot harder and faster.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 6:25 AM
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I don't get it. The chart shows that Google is at 300%. How did you figure 4 fold?
# posted by 
: 19 November, 2005 09:57
: 19 November, 2005 09:57
Deb,
The graph starts at zero on the left and is now at 300%, so they have added 3 times to the original amount, for a total of 4x. In exact numbers, going from $85 to over $400 is more than 4-fold by my calculations. And it's not metric money.
The graph starts at zero on the left and is now at 300%, so they have added 3 times to the original amount, for a total of 4x. In exact numbers, going from $85 to over $400 is more than 4-fold by my calculations. And it's not metric money.
I heard someone say that Microsoft is going to the dogs. I took offense, being more of a Google hound myself.
I love Google, and I love their stock even more. I thought it was high at $200, but now at $400... Oh well.
# posted by : 20 November, 2005 11:24
: 20 November, 2005 11:24
Heh heh heh.
Conversation in IBM office, 1980, "Software? You can own that. The money's in the hardware. Software's a house of cards."
Question to Faraday, "What use is this electricity stuff? It's a house of cards."
Comment to Newton, "Umm, this calculus stuff is useless."
Conversation in IBM office, 1980, "Software? You can own that. The money's in the hardware. Software's a house of cards."
Question to Faraday, "What use is this electricity stuff? It's a house of cards."
Comment to Newton, "Umm, this calculus stuff is useless."
Hank,
Hey dawg. Yeah who needs "search" when we can "sniff"
John,
Memo to Bush: Iraq is a "house of cards."
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Hey dawg. Yeah who needs "search" when we can "sniff"
John,
Memo to Bush: Iraq is a "house of cards."
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