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by raganwald 6613 days ago
What about offering $24 in 1996?

http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1996/swol-01-apple.html

The board turned Sun down and then went out and paid $400 million to buy NeXT. For all intents and purposes, they paidf $400 million to buy an operating system, hire an OS team headed by Avie Trevanian, and oh yes, provide a nice signing bonus for their new part-time CEO, some guy named Steve.

Lots of shareholders grumbled.

Of course, that was Apple and this is Yahoo. I don't personally think Jerry has Steve's touch, but I sincerely hope he makes me look like the wrong end of an Equine.