That 80 million "LTPSA" he got in 2014 are not unconditional... It's quite easy for him to lose that money, so there is at least a strong incentive for him not to cause excessive damage...
(If footnote 2 from the compensation table in the linked text is insufficient in terms of details, there are further materials I've read a few hours ago, but I don't remember the details or urls...
In any case, the bottom line is that I was almost certain that there was a conflict of interest here between his incentives and company's best interests, and now I am not sure, after doing that research prompted by your previous question...
I am now agnostic on that, that's all... His compensation numbers in a year would tell us more...
But I think I'll leave it at that; to come up with a definite conclusion would probably require investing more effort than I want to put into this...
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I did hear some versions about synergies with LinkedIn which made some sense; like putting all that LinkedIn info into Cortana to assist people in their business dealings with each other, and perhaps even projecting that onto HoloLens eventually... I had a chance to try their HoloLens recently, and it was quite impressive, so they probably take that possibility into account...
Even if it sounds like a risky bet, it's not altogether crazy... The LinkedIn stock curve was also suggestive if one looks at the complete history of that - they've met each other half-way, I would say... )
Re: Executives motivation for merging
(If footnote 2 from the compensation table in the linked text is insufficient in terms of details, there are further materials I've read a few hours ago, but I don't remember the details or urls...
In any case, the bottom line is that I was almost certain that there was a conflict of interest here between his incentives and company's best interests, and now I am not sure, after doing that research prompted by your previous question...
I am now agnostic on that, that's all... His compensation numbers in a year would tell us more...
But I think I'll leave it at that; to come up with a definite conclusion would probably require investing more effort than I want to put into this...
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I did hear some versions about synergies with LinkedIn which made some sense; like putting all that LinkedIn info into Cortana to assist people in their business dealings with each other, and perhaps even projecting that onto HoloLens eventually... I had a chance to try their HoloLens recently, and it was quite impressive, so they probably take that possibility into account...
Even if it sounds like a risky bet, it's not altogether crazy... The LinkedIn stock curve was also suggestive if one looks at the complete history of that - they've met each other half-way, I would say...
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