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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL)
ORCL 220.61+0.3%Nov 18 3:59 PM EST
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To: hueyone who wrote (17742)1/6/2003 1:40:39 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor   of 19079
 
I seriously doubt you can make a case that companies have performed better for shareholders on average where the executives have been granted massive stock options.

I was trying to make a case that companies perform better when executives own more of the company than is typical. In other words some key executive or set of executives is free to do what they want with regards to paying people and other incentives vs. some guidelines that VCs come up with. I'm not sure how to reasearch this. I know Larry and Tom own so much of their respective companies they cut great deals for engineers early on that weren't possible in the startup companies I worked for- my startup companies also failed.

Another company that has huge insider ownership is broadcom in the chip biz. Lets see how that one does.

BTW I agree with you that there is likely a problem at the top with stock options, and oracle might be a poster child for that now. Oracle doesn't treat its people well, imo and their relentless outsourcing to india and the third world might wreak major damage to this industry later on, we'll have to see. Imo Oracle's unwillingness to incent key team lead positions with stock options and better pay in the applications area is costing them dearly... you could say SAP is not an options machine either but they had a huge head start in apps. Oracle came up from behind and was gaining early on... now I feel the apps business at Oracle is floundering based on their personnel policies- they just can't seem to get a quality product out the door.
Lizzie
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