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Technology Stocks : Spectrum Signal Processing (SSPI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: daaan who wrote (2870)	7/26/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Edwin S. Fujinaka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4400

Greedy or just ambitious; aren't we all to some extent? Referring to the three people who left SSPI in 1994 to form Hot Haus, it might have been worth offering them each a million dollars a year to stay at SSPI. From 1994 through 1999 it would have cost a total of $15 million. As a practical matter, SSPI could probably never have offered such a deal and, of course we don't know if they could have created the $280 million of value within SSPI, but it might not have been too surprising for SSPI to go from a $2 stock to a $30 stock over those five years. I believe that the Company has some sort of new stock option plan in place. Maybe that will help. Perhaps the Hot Haus experience is what prompted consideration of a stock option plan for key employees. I don't know, but it might be a reasonable guess.