Business decisions, examined from inside the work

Leadership

MongoDB's CEO left for Meta. Why didn't the reassurance work?

MongoDB answered every question after its CEO left for Meta, and the stock still fell 17%. Reassurance that costs nothing to give can't answer the question a sudden exit raises.

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Business

Microsoft's 5% monthly billing fee is a loan at about 11%

From 1 October Microsoft charges 5% more for annual CSP software billed monthly, and calls it a cost of capital uplift. Treated as the loan it is, that comes to about 11% a year. Whether to pay it depends on what money costs you.