Monster has been...
Monster has been fantastic about leaving us alone. We’re just out here doing
our thing. We are very lucky, and I still enjoy and want to build a great legacy
for Monster. But I won’t be here forever. I can’t. I’m a starter.
If Yahoo had acquired us, they would have made us move to Mountain
View, and would have made us a widget on a feature on a division of a department,
and everyone would have left, and the whole thing would have died. And
Wall Street would have applauded roundly.
Whereas Wall Street has been perplexed by Monster’s acquisition of Tickle.
Yet it’s so obvious: we’re the largest career testing site in the world, we’ve got
matchmaking capabilities between people for romance, and we can use the
same matchmaking capabilities by measuring different dimensions for jobs. We
can take job matching to the next level—the next stage for high-end job finding.
And Monster gets the value of every person and every product we have here
because there was no overlap.
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