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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (21048)	1/9/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: brian h	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Clark and Jon, Jon got a very good point. Put it another way. If I had known Dr. J was growing a company with revenue but not shareholder value, I would have parked my hard earned money into CSCO, INTC, and MSFT two years ago. Just wait for Dr. J. decide to max. its shareholder value; then invest it. That way Dr. J. can keep his personality and I can feel pretty good about my investment too. It is good to keep investing money in R&D. But how to balance it with earning appreciation is another matter. Brian H.

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (21048)	1/10/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Randall Knight	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

The very first day in "Corporation Finance" class, the professor told us that the sole, most important job of management of a publicly traded corporation is ... to maximize the share price of the corporation. Everything else one can think of is secondary or redundant or extraneous. If you do things to make the share price go up, you are doing the right thing. So AMZN is a better company than QCOM? I think that the statement above is valid only over a long term scenario. Look at RPM for example. Who will make more money in the next twenty years, owners of AMZN or owners of QCOM?