→ Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

jakoblodwick: 79,000 Microsoft employees, absorbing 13,600 Yahoo! employees. How do you coordinate the efforts of 92,600 people? Does MS have a philosophy? Is there a supernatural promise? Is there even a goal, like, “We’re trying to make the best software.” ?

More — jakoblodwick: An answer to my Microsoft / Yahoo! question, consultants getting filthy rich and all. “Lots of things will still go wrong. But a good amount won’t.”