• bluGill@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    The problem with large customers is they can see value and if you charge too much it goes they can build their own.

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      7 months ago

      Not by next quarter. By the time that happens, this set of execs will be already at the next company.

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          7 months ago

          Even if they do, they get bonuses for short term stock gain, not long term stuff. If the going gets bad, they totally do bail. Some companies - khm Reddit khm - even bring in execs just to take a fall when that happens, only for the same guys who set the problem up to take back the reins after the fallout.

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            7 months ago

            They generally have a large part of their net worth in company stock and are getting options. Thus long term matters.

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              7 months ago

              It’s supposed to work like that. You’re naive to think it actually does work like that for a majority of companies nowadays.

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      7 months ago

      I just left one of the UK’s largest VMWare customers, in a team working directly on VSphere and ESXI products. The team was just starting to tool up for a new internal project to manage VMs within the company using some of the newer features in these tools. We had well over 1 million VMs across more than a dozen datacenters. The cost of running this is expected to go up by 30 times or more.

      While it’s going to take some time, they’re now looking at migrating to a different solution. So Broadcom are going to get their extra pay for a while, but not forever.