Difficult Negotiations

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 12:45pm by David Askaripour in Video

Hawkins talks about the complicated negotiations with 3COM for the spin off of Palm. Discussions lasted 5 months and involved investment bankers and board members. Five different proposals on how to do this were presented to the CEO, and they even proposed spinning off 2 years in the future. However, the final decision involved no doors banging, and no storming out of offices. All said and done Jeff Hawkins did not want to start a company.

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