• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
      33·
      2 days ago

      and can single handily ruin a product like VMware overnight

      I’ve never seen so many companies abandon something so quickly. I’m glad we will never do any business with broadcom. literal shithole to deal with

      • ragepaw@lemmy.ca
        25·
        2 days ago

        I worked in sales at VMware before and during the switch over.

        We were told they didn’t care how we did it, but we needed to get over 300% more from out customers. And when someone on a call asked how we could do that without driving away customers, we got an evil Bond villain laugh and the question, “What are they going to do, switch to someone else?”

  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    That’s ~$100,000/hr. How can a board of directors justify this expense? How has the entire C suite not been luigied?

    • Wudi@feddit.ukOP
      8·
      1 day ago

      How can a board of directors justify this expense?

      Because they are also getting lavishly paid.

      I have been on 20 public company corporate boards, not counting any Berkshire subsidiaries. So, I’ve seen a lot of corporate boards operate. And the independent directors, in many cases, are the least independent

      I mean, if the income you receive as a corporate director — which typically may be around $250,000 a year ”now, if that’s an important part of your income, and you hope that some other corporation calls the CEO and says, “How’s so-and-so as a director?” and the current CEO — your CEO ” says, “Oh, he’s fine and never raises any problems,” and then you get on another board at 250,000 and that’s an important part, how in the world is that independent? I mean, I really, just an observation

      They’re just not going to upset the apple cart, because what they’re — and I’d probably behave the same way in the same position. I mean, if $250,000 a year is important to you, why in the hell would you behave in a way that’s going to cause your CEO to say to the next CEO, “This guy acts up a little bit too much. You really better get somebody else.” It’s the way it works

      - Warren Buffet

      (As of 2026, Buffet’s estimated net worth stood at $145.9 billion)

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    I think my company’s VMware licensing fee increase after the acquisition covered the whole thing…

  • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    This is how “Hawk Tuah” should’ve spelled her name. It’s based on “hocking a lugi”, not a bird.