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Dubious. I imagine you could give Steve Jobs $100 trillion and he still wouldn't sell Apple. What would he do with his life? Buy Apple back?
Selling Apple isn't up to (just) Steve Jobs. That's not how public companies work.
Going out on a very frail limb here, but it seems to me that MA wants to build a (small, but "his") empire, not just make money. In that context it makes no sense for him to sell TechCrunch. That said, stranger things have happened...
http://www.businessinsider.com/techcrunch-editor-arrington-h...
""It has been five years, and I can tell you, I am ready," he said."
Congrats to MA & crew if it's true. Regardless of whether people care for his style of writing or what TechCrunch has become (I don't mind most of it), it warms me up to see people who bust their asses get rewarded handsomely (assuming the payoff will be good.) I just hope AOL won't kill it by injecting content from random Seed.com writers, similar to the way Demand Media turned eHow and LiveStrong into content beds.…
IMO, the quality of MG Siegler's writing is barely a step up from content farms.
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Every business is for sale at the right price :)
Dubious. I imagine you could give Steve Jobs $100 trillion and he still wouldn't sell Apple. What would he do with his life? Buy Apple back?
Disregarding the technicalities (Mr. Jobs owns only a small part of Apple's shares) the parent has a point in that if you're happy with what you're doing, no, if you love what you're doing and have financial stability already so that you don't need to worry about money, ceteris paribus, you might not want to sell your business. It might not make you any happier or your life any more meaningful. Of course, if you feel like doing something new, then it makes sense.
Congrats to MA & crew if it's true. Regardless of whether people care for his style of writing or what TechCrunch has become (I don't mind most of it), it warms me up to see people who bust their asses get rewarded handsomely (assuming the payoff will be good.) I just hope AOL won't kill it by injecting content from random Seed.com writers, similar to the way Demand Media turned eHow and LiveStrong into content beds.…
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Congrats to MA & crew if it's true. Regardless of whether people care for his style of writing or what TechCrunch has become (I don't mind most of it), it warms me up to see people who bust their asses get rewarded handsomely (assuming the payoff will be good.) I just hope AOL won't kill it by injecting content from random Seed.com writers, similar to the way Demand Media turned eHow and LiveStrong into content beds.…
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Selling Apple isn't up to (just) Steve Jobs. That's not how public companies work.
True, but completely missing the point of the comment you're responding to.
Maybe Facebook a few years back?