Yes, we all burned through money on stupid things like television ads (too bad Purple Cow hadn't been written yet or we'd know better) and million dollar parties, but at least it was a learning experience, right?
As another illustration, Nash's and Kalai and Smorodinsky's solutions both recommend allocating an indivisible prize by a fifty-fifty lottery, whether the prize is symmetric (a one-dollar bill for either party) or asymmetric (a one-dollar bill if party 1 wins, ten dollars if party 2 wins).
Adelphia executives were using corporate money as their personal piggy bank, and Tyco's CEO was throwing elaborate million dollar birthday parties with corporate funds.
"Two million dollars?" the party leader said, keeping his cool.
Activision reportedly spent six million dollars on party costs.
"Fifty dollars to party, top and bottom, whatever you want".
But Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr has a better way of putting it: "I'm thinking of it like it's a quarter-billion dollar party".
Three thousand dollars for one party!" "Your wedding party.
Some of those who had come up with half a million dollars for the party included representatives of organized labor, fresh from their defeat on Capitol Hill at the hands of the Clinton administration on the China trade bill.
I certainly understand the frustration of unemployed and disenfranchised people who have seen Wall Streeters getting bailed out with U.S. tax dollars and then spending those relief dollars on lavish parties and million dollar bonuses.
