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From Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle For “Unicorn” Employees by Scott Belsky
…cquisitions and IPOs that leave a lot of hard working employees at these companies in a weird spot. They’ll be congratulated by everyone they know for their extraordinary success while scratching their heads wondering why they barely benefited. Of course, the reason is that these employees never understood their compensation in the first place (and they were not privy to the terms of all the financings before and after they were hired).
From ERP Is Out The Door: Why The Oracle Netsuite Acquisition Doesn’t Matter by Tien Tzuo
Oracle has proven over and over again that they are where all acquired companies go to lay their innovation to rest. Eloqua, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems…now add Netsuite to the list. At the end of the day, this move demonstrates the downward spiral of traditional ERP economics more…