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Comment Why? Greed, aka 'Incentives'? (Score 1) 96

Granted, eBay can be horrible. But .. Gamestop? Overreach. Why? Greed, aka 'Incentives'?

Gamestop's CEO is Canadian. TB Bank is also Canadian. From the CEO's Wikipedia page:

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  In January 2026, the board granted him a 100% performance-based stock option award valued by press reports at approximately $35 billion if fully earned, covering 171.5 million shares at $20.66 per share. The award is divided into nine tranches that vest only if GameStop simultaneously hits market-capitalization and cumulative-EBITDA targets, with full vesting requiring a $100 billion market capitalization and $10 billion in cumulative EBITDA, roughly tenfold the companyâ(TM)s value at the time of the grant.[31][32]

Comment correction (Score 1) 37

Maybe this headline is better.

Two COOL Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs

Though the nuke startup is literally hot, in that it generates heat. While the geothermal startup harvests existing heat. So this headline is most accurate:

A COOL Climate Tech Startup and a HOT Nuclear Power Startup Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs

Comment Truly sad and sadly true (Score 1) 54

Broadcom's share price has only tripled after closing the VMWare acquisition in Nov '23 -- from $100 to $300

Think of it this way: what does Broadcom do? Make chips! What increases the demand for chips?
- Less virtualisation
- Poorer quality virtualisation
- Forced infrastructure changes

Even Nutanix uses Broadcom chips. As a Hyperconverged Infrastructure provider, Nutanix relies on hardware partners such as Dell, HPE, and Cisco. Their products incorporate various hardware components (NICs, routing silicon) from Broadcom. So if Nutanix gains 30K customers due to Broadcom squeezing the life out of VMWare, some coins roll down Broadcom's way. Yes, Nutanix wins more bigly, but a Broadcom bean-counter is probably carefully tracking all these effects in a financial model.

And this model almost certainly does not track environment degradation due to infrastructure changes forced by Broadcom's behaviour with VMWare.

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