It literally wasn't. He paid way more than what the stock was worth. (Hence why he desperately tried to get out of it, and why the board desperately tried to make sure he had to go through with it.)

I think he's just saying the headline is (potentially maliciously) ambiguous. I certainly assumed "told not to testify [or else]" when I read it.

There are some fantastic gems of videos that still get released, but they're really hard to find amongst the YouTube crap videos.

Linus LOVES corporate buzzwords. He certainly never fails to remind critics that he's just running a business.

He's said before that he hates it, but including one of those thumbnails boosts viewership by 30%. I certainly don't like it, but it would be really hard for me to resist that extra income too.

And not even as a genericized term. (Google and Xerox HATE that they're used as verbs.)

"Tweet" is only ever used to describe posting to Twitter. It's a very unique position that's about as ideal as it gets for a company brand.

"Hell yes we're going to take your guns" is not the best slogan when running for governor of Texas.

I just realized that "Google Chat" and "Chat Messages" are to complete different things. Insane.

It's extremely interesting to me how China's SCS claims permeate through big business. It's no coincidence they used a china-friendly map.

Wealth has been concentrating at the top for the past few decades now in ways the modern world has never seen before.

This is US-centric, but Canada hasn’t been much better. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/