Making the World a Better Place While Helping an Acquisition Succeed

This is a cool concept, but one note - typically if a retained employee is involuntarily removed from the company, their financial benefits accelerate (other than in cases of "for cause" termination).

This is generally good for the employee, as it removes the risk that the acquirer will "push out" an employee and save on some money (or at least mitigates the pain of being pushed out by an acquirer who doesn't care about the money)

Can you give money to Stanford and call it charity? With a straight face? Then maybe you have a bright future as a tech executive.

It is both funny and sad that I thought of the show Silicon Valley when I read that headline...

having just been through a rather acrimonious acquisition (as an employee) I can't help but think about the unwanted employees who are on the other side of that desired "acquired team" divide.