tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799034827427799044.post8711621275188818931..comments2022-06-23T03:26:00.769-07:00Comments on Mark Carter: Diary: Even Bill Gates didn't understand Microsoft's franchiseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14217216051200082198noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799034827427799044.post-61131413182357925292011-12-15T13:49:03.056-08:002011-12-15T13:49:03.056-08:00"neither party of the proposed transaction un..."neither party of the proposed transaction understood what was valuable about Microsoft"<br /><br />I'm not sure that matters for Bill. If you set up Microsoft and you were 25 or 30 and IBM offered you £100m, would you take it, because I would. I wouldn't give a monkeys that at some point in the future I 'would' have been worth £1b instead. I just don't care. £100m is plenty for me to go sit on the beach with.UK Value Investorhttp://ukvalueinvestor.comnoreply@blogger.com