If I go buy a box of crackers at Walmart, am I funding Walmart? Is Walmart now beholden to me?
Mitchell got Google to pay nearly double what Yahoo was willing to pay and has gotten Google to pay more each year for a dwindling user base.
If someone was going to Walmart and paying millions for a box of crackers, you’d be right in assuming the transaction wasn’t about the crackers.
They owe you a box of crackers. Once you've departed with it, they're no longer beholden to you.