Tech shareholders want executives to take risks building new products. Of course they’d prefer the products be successful but if the options are “hire 30k people 50% chance we have to lay them all off” or “don’t build new products” most tech shareholders want option 1.

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dominotw 3 days ago | parent [-]

where do you pull 50 percent number for oracle?

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HDThoreaun 3 days ago | parent [-]

Even if the number is 10% they want the company to take risks. Big tech shareholders number one goal is not becoming IBM

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dominotw 3 days ago | parent [-]

anyone can get any random shower thought funded by this logic. Thats not how investing works.

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HDThoreaun 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Then why dont executives got punished by investors when they take risks and fail? The answer clearly is that investors want the risks to be taken and understand the downside that comes from taking risks.

	▲	dominotw 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Then why dont executives got punished by investors when they take risks and fail? they do?

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kasabali 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, as an outsider, this is exactly how it seems to be working.