I’m sure many of you have heard Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo. Deals of this size are hard to pull off and rarely work. I have a better idea: If Microsoft really wanted to win at this game, they should take that $44.6 billion and give seed money to the smartest group of people they could find and have them perform one task — to develop the best search engine in the world. At the end of this task they all share $1 billion. With more than $43 billion left, Microsoft could put what is left to better use, such as free health care for everyone for five years, rebuilding New Orleans, or heck, give some to me, or give it to their shareholders.
When you have too much money you make bad decisions. This is a bad idea. I’ll provide more details as to why in a later post.
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Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Yahoo!, YHOO