They didn't have to. Their stock has been in hyper growth mode and people were making a fucking killing there. The RSUs over cash was totally worth it at that point. But now the scales have tipped and it's quite the opposite.

This is absolutely not true.

Pretty sure they lowered their prices after the year ended, having no impact on there numbers.

If anyone has figured out how to capitalize specifically on the frequent Tesla swings they would absolutely make a killing. The volatility in the stock over the last 10 years was insane. I was long on Tesla until it just got to a point of insanity with the recent split. Fortunately, I sold before it crashed, but I often thought about trying to get out and play the dips. The number of times it went down and back up 5,10, 15% in a matter of days was insane. Still is clearly, although it has been going down much more recently.

And still up 400% in the last 3 years. It's all relative.

Even the headline is stupid framing. It makes it sound as if Tesla has been largely down since 2013. Or at least hasn't seen very good days. But reality is they had an insanely good week percentage wise, they've had bigger point gains in a week in that same timeframe.

Anyways, context is important.

That's not how this works. They are rebroadcasting FOX and CBS games, there's no ad revenue to be had. Amazon is actually producing their own game, but Google will never do that under this package.

Is the author of this article an actual idiot? Google won't come anywhere near breaking even at these numbers, you can't just count the existing fee for YouTube TV towards the $2 billion in new expenses. They need about 6.5 million subscribers at $300/year to break even for just the rights. They'll pour about couple hundred million into the tech and broadcast too, so add that on. Sure, there's value from increasing YouTube TV subs, but every sun increases costs from the content that comes along with it.

Google is very unlikely to turn a profit on this directly and using it as a way to bring in more viewers in general is likely the play. Rumor has it that DirecTV was losing about $500 million/year with their cost of $1 billion/year, so Google has a big hill to climb. Making it more accessible and not requiring DirecTV could be a great start though.

Found the teenager.

I literally work at Amazon in corporate. You are wrong.

Amazon literally uses a performance system like I described. What's described in the article may be something happening in a specific team, but Amazon uses a company wide performance rating scale.

They have not. At least the 4 I've worked at. I know others at other large companies too and everyone has some form of performance reviews where ratings are applied. Even the ones thst have softened the ratings system still have a poor performer designation.

No company is immune to poor performing employees and any halfway decent manager is going to push out their low performers.