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I read the first few paragraphs and couldn't tell where this was going. Is there a tl;dr version?


Sure there is, but quite honestly this isn't something most people would value for the plotline. It's something you will enjoy reading because the story's prose alternately moves and amuses, portraying the situation as a tragi-comedy. I can tell you that BigCo buys LittleCo, merges LittleCo with MiddleCo, brings in Chainsaw Huffington to fire hundreds of people, and along the way there are SNAFUs as the company tries to restructure things. Those are the ostensible facts.

But that plot is played out somewhere every week, it's not worth reading unless you have a personal interest in the people or the companies, or unless the story is told in a way that moves you. Thus, I suggest you stick with it and read the entire thing. Or if you're too busy to read the entire thing, skip it: There'll probably be a story just like this about Yahoo! shuttering one of its acquisitions in a week or so.


It is hilarious, read the whole piece.




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