Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (158405)	7/8/2003 7:07:45 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

I think yahoo will ultimately take the mantle from msft... In what? BTW, the point about stock grants is not to curtail compensation - the market's already doing that as only the market can. They are better because 1) the value is easily and objectively determinable at grant (no funny business with trying to quantify potential future value to book a theoretical expense), 2) the employee has an easily quantifiable incentive to stay put (the unvested portion of the grant, which, unlike options, still has value even if the stock declines from grant), and 3) upper management has an equity incentive that more closely matches their interests with those of regular shareholders than do options. Bob