$69 billion is a ton for VMware, someone help educate me....how will he get his money back with so many customers migrating off. Even if he can get the top 500 to 1000 to keep paying for a few more years, is that enough to cover the cost of the acquisition?
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"Then why are you still here? Especially since you are happy in your new company."
Because I am actively recruiting from VMware, and it's helpful to know when additional RIFs are occurring, or when ridiculous blanket full-time RTO mandates are being enforced.
Get over yourself, and go count your RSUs. I truly hope you are able to hang on long enough to vest them all.
"I left the BC meat grinder mid-year"
Then why are you still here? Especially since you are happy in your new company.
1 reason only: you are still filled with anger and desire to revenge.
AVGO is not a single person (AVGO != HT)
And that is where you are wrong. The real formula is avgo IFF hock. Just like Telsa, Twitter, Starlink, etc are Elon.
Yes they are companies that have thousand of employees, yada yada. These companies are the definition of 'key man risk'. When they go, the company will nosedive. It really is that simple. BC will drop 20% in a week once hock kicks it.
"The goal of working is to make money. Not to enjoy it..."
Bingo. We just found the ideal Broadcom employee - a supplicant who is willing to give up everything for money.
Believe it or not, it's possible to earn a great living while working at a career you enjoy, supported by a positive work culture. I left the BC meat grinder mid-year, and am earning within +/- 10% of my total BC comp but at a company I enjoy, with people who are great, and where the CEO doesn't bulldoze the customers, partners & employees.
The goal of working is to make money. Not to enjoy it. Not to do it until you die. You get as much money as you can in the shortest period of time...then enjoy life. You need some better hobbies if you'd rather spend your entire life "enjoying" your job.
“ This reaction is an absolutely perfect example of the soulless wasteland that is Broadcom's culture. It's like scorpions in a jar.”
If the job market didn’t su-k right now, I’d be gone.
But boy, am I glad I'm no longer working for this toxic cesspool of a company.
Would 2 million a year change your mind?
If not, what is your price?
Hock will be pushed out by blackrock and co as soon as he hands over more company control for the Babylon money magic he used to buy VMware. That's how businesses work these days. It's the reason why ki-l gates only owns 1pc of Microsoft today. The more blackrock and co get of a company, the closer the current so called owner is showed the door.
"Who really gives a fu-k. I'm happy as long as I keep getting RSUs. A bunch of whiny bi--hes..."
This reaction is an absolutely perfect example of the soulless wasteland that is Broadcom's culture. It's like scorpions in a jar. No, I don't think Hock is going to fail, and yes, there is absolutely a method behind the BCs M&A strategy. But boy, am I glad I'm no longer working for this toxic cesspool of a company.
Yes it will be enough. It's not like owning a pub where income and expenses matter. At the Broadcom level, it's all financial shenanigans, debt restructuring, and underwriting. Hock will make money, which is to say he will funnel money from one pocket to another.
Sounds like someone is bitter. Even if I was let go, I would not be this bitter for 2 reasons:
- Remnants of VMW=>AVGO shares in my pocket so no point shooting my own foot
- AVGO is not a single person(AVGO != HT), I would not want the entire ~$1T company fall for my petty hubris
Enough with the negativity already, this sounds like the end of Democracy as one party would have like us to believe a little over a month ago.