Comment Re:This Was Broadcom's Entire Plan (Score 1) 90
I think it has nothing to do with capitalism. It really means, who ever valuated VMWare at $61 billion for the owners of VMWare, did a shitty job.
This reminds me of the bygone Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) era. Where firms used to acquire companies that were unrelated to their own business. They would do so because the equity valuations of the acquired co were so low, that the free cash flows and assets of the acquired company could finance the cost of acquisition and still leave some money on the table.
Coincidentally, the last of such deals ended with KKR acquiring NABISCO. In the case of VMWare too, KKR purchased some of the assets of VMWare from Broadcom.