A reader asks


Dear Steve,
Back in August you said you were bored with the industry and you wished someone would announce a big silly train-wreck of a merger. See here and here. You wrote at the moment that you’d like to see “one of those deals where tens of billions of dollars change hands and everybody knows it’s a train wreck but the two CEOs get up and talk about their wonderful synergies and blah blah and everyone just kind of snickers and waits for the catastrophe to happen.” You said you wanted to see “something big and robust and incredibly

silly, with at least one but preferably two very high-profile companies doing something really, really dumb.” My question to you, Dear Leader, is simply that: Does Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo fulfill these conditions?
Signed, Steve Dowling

Dear Steve Dowling,
Thank you for your letter. The reply is a resounding Yes. Microsoft taking by Yahoo is beyond anything I could have imagined. It’s a wet dream brought to life. Thanks for the question. And I love your horns and beard braid. The new look is really working for you.

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