On Twitter, donors were using the hashtag #ACLUmatch to find the deep pockets willing to double their modest gifts.
Bell remembers being astonished: Dobson was a small man — "like, a hundred pounds, soaking wet" — with big hands and a deep voice, willing to hurdle the flower display in front of the pulpit, if it would help make a Biblical teaching stick.
Assuming you roust a few competing takers (a nice problem to have right now), and assuming you haven't succumbed to the thrill of finding a deep and willing pocket, there's a bit more due diligence that remains.
There is quite a bit of seed capital in Europe for consumer-facing opportunities – but not that many global venture firms with deep pockets willing to take the kinds of technology risk that DFJ Esprit took when it backed companies such as CSR, Cambridge Semiconductor, Neul, or ZBD.
But the superdonors all have one thing in common: they are by definition deep-pocketed, willing and ready to give far more than the $2,500 checks that donors to candidates are limited to writing.
Google, now a major Microsoft competitor with extremely deep pockets, is willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to ensure that the deal becomes inviable.
Moreover, the knowledge that foreigners with deep pockets are willing to pay to redeem slaves reduces the incentive for owners to set them free without payment.
Whether shareholders will be willing to dig deep a second time is far less clear.
Robert Kane (1996) suggests that while some form of ability to do otherwise is indeed necessary for moral responsibility, this condition is but an indicator of something deeper to free will: the willing's finding its ultimate origin in the agent.
We'll have to see in later cases if the courts will be willing to take deeper technical dives on the issues of both LLC dilution as a transfer and LAMBs.
