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To: GVTucker who wrote (147)	4/30/2004 3:53:55 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 15851

you know, I realized after I posted that post that the new president at Yahoo post Koogle (Semel) stated in 2001 that he didn't like options and was going to refrain from issuing them. I haven't followed yahoo in a while and they used to be an option rich employee base just like Cisco. As for Google, there are 2 reasons I was thinking they would be issuing fewer options. One is that they have so few employees considering their stature in the industry. This is purely related to offshoring. Google had 1300 employees for the LONGEST time, and now I see it stated a few places that Google is up to 1900. That really is nothing, in comparison to other similar net companies who are also way down from their employment base at peak. The other is that companies are giving fewer options period these days. The unemployment rate in the valley is still very high and there isn't any need to overcompensate top people.