There's plenty of extremely talented people who joined the party too late to have any significant options. Now everywhere they go (including home, private, and social lives...) they can't escape hearing about the gold mine that was just dropped on Kevin and crew.
You literally can't escape this news in the connected world. Can't help but wonder if that's weighing on morale at all in there.
Same thing that let him say no to his own $1 billion acquisition offer I suppose.
Though Google cache pulled through, at least for now:
People laughed at Google for buying YouTube for $1.65 billion. Now every single big company wishes they had done it instead.
I think it was Sergey Brin who recently said something about an investment in Google being a long-term bet on his/Page's decision making. It's like the world has suddenly forgotten why businesses are structured the way they are.
To make an unrelated, more controversial, point: if a CEO can take arbitrary, unilateral decisions, it's difficult to see why they should benefit from the protection of corporate liability.
So this started before the deal was closed. Did the funding round close?
funny that they would only need to let their investment ride into equivalent investments for another 21 days before reaching a return of 209 Trillion dollars, which is in excess of the total value of all stocks, bonds and currency in the world.
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%3D+%281+billion+-+500+...
(PS: Negotiation 101, start with a number 2x bigger than what you expect)
