On: Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]

[nl]

> executives running these businesses are in some sense immature

Ironically the truth is the opposite - there's a good reason for saying "all business is personal".

SAAS businesses are about optimising. Billion dollar deals are about relationships (and not always positive ones).

[EricE → nl]

>Ironically the truth is the opposite - there's a good reason for saying "all business is personal".

I'm amused that often the same people screeching that Trump is incompetent will also deride him for going "on and on" about relationships.

[Hallucinaut → EricE]

He's the President. Government is not the same as business, nor should it be.

[nl → Hallucinaut]

And corruption is different to good personal relationships.