As a Ex Riverbed employee, one of the issues I had was the lack of transparency of the financials when TB bought RB. To ask a simple question, who owns Riverbed? Does the Fed own part of RB in the form of junk bonds? Is that one of the only reason RB is still around? When I started at RB I thought it had the opportunity to pivot from WAN-OP to SDWAN with built world class visibility but they obviously could not execute that transaction.
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"When I started at RB I thought it had the opportunity to pivot from WAN-OP to SDWAN with built world class visibility but they obviously could not execute that transaction"
PREACH!!!!!
Was curious about the fed bond purchasing as well. Somebody correct me if im wrong but my read here is that tge fed bond purchasing of corporate and etf junk bonds, where i suppose riverved could fall into, was a very overhyped 13 billion. If riverbed were a piece of that, it would be miniscule.
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/06/02/it-begins-the-fed-will-outright-sell-its-corporate-bonds-bond-etfs/
The fed is buying mortage securities and treasuries, not much corporate.