Company Breakups Debate

Comments discuss the merits, challenges, and examples of splitting large companies, especially tech giants, into separate entities for reasons like antitrust enforcement, accountability, and improved performance.

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robertlagrant Oct 1, 2023 View on HN

Why split the company? What does that do?

carapace Jun 19, 2020 View on HN

Couldn't they split into two companies?

em-bee Dec 9, 2024 View on HN

interesting, do you have a link to more details on why the split company was needed and how it affected using them?

balaji1 Nov 8, 2022 View on HN

Any anecdotes of a company that was successfully split up as you suggest?

saghm Mar 12, 2019 View on HN

Wouldn't the point of breaking those into separate companies be to _prevent_ them from hooking into the same backend?

throwawaysea Nov 12, 2021 View on HN

It's a standard move to create accountability. If you have one big conglomerate, it is easy for underperforming businesses to hide among others' success. By splitting things up, every business and organization has to survive on their own. Personally I doubt their scandal figures much into this decision.

smcleod Oct 18, 2022 View on HN

Glad to see this. Now split up the whole company.

animefan Aug 18, 2015 View on HN

Spin them off as separate companies and you're onto something good ;-)

bin_bash Jun 3, 2022 View on HN

It would. I'm saying they might have split the company into separate units in order to make it easier to spin off a new corporation.

bilal4hmed Apr 13, 2021 View on HN

Splitting is not the solution to anything. Tell how splitting will solve anything ?? Let chinese companies or Apple or Microsoft buy up everything ???