Merger, breakup, acquisition, or bankruptcy? The storefront on Western Digital’s website isn’t accepting orders. Is this the end?
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this company is not done, but it is badly broken from its leadership to its policies
JK is too busy managing his real estate empire. New home in Hawaii, Las Vegas homes..in hotel! Sold his daughter's dance studio years ago, learned how to build a bike, a car and went to college very young. This guy is a blowhard! Can't stop talking about himself! Painful on his sales calls. His store pet project is a failure that he won't admit, so he keeps dumping budget into this joke, along with wasting money on building that team. Leader of e commerce is another pet project. He is clueless on so many levels...drives everyone nuts with his constant meetings to ask useless and irrelevant questions. The entire sales and marketing org are training this doofus. His boss is no better. A smooth talking a$$ from Amsterdam!
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"Kioxia doesn't want us. Micron wouldn't merge with us, for what purpose they would?"
It's not about whether or not Kioxia wants WD. It's about who's the highest bidder is. Kioxia is not relevant anymore from business point of view. Japanese government wanted to keep the technology in Japan, that's why Toshiba didn't sell Kioxia to a single entity. Kioxia+WD/SanDisk combined would have a significant market share. That plus WD presence in HDD makes a difference from enterprise business point of view.
Micron shareholders would sell it to highest bidder too. Or maybe they even buy the combined Kioxia+WD for market share. If you are old enough, you would understand that SSD will go or is already going through what HDD did 20 years ago. At the end there are three major players: Samsung, Hynix, and an American NAND/SSD company.
Kioxia doesn't want us. Micron wouldn't merge with us, for what purpose they would?
To the person asking who JK is.....
JK is Jerald Kagele (Executive Vice President , Customer Organization).
In this position, Kagele has responsibility for the customer relationship in cloud, enterprise, OEM, client and consumer markets globally. This responsibility includes revenue generation and all go to market activities: sales, demand generation and customer support for all Western Digital products and services
"This company my be done"
I am not a native speaker and therefore I use spell check. Might be useful when posting or at work?
"This company may be done"
As someone already posted the store really is a JK pet project. I will give him due credit for stepping up and communicating to his entire team during the hack. He read a letter from DG and that was quite telling. DG thought it not important enough to speak his mind in person. What a loser.
Before the upcoming RIF, the following were the latest RIF numbers in California. Anyone had numbers for other sites?
Milpitas - 86
Irvine - 62
San Jose - 103
Let's be honest. The WD store is a joke. The bloated e-commerce team are JK special pet project. They are a constant pain in the a$$ with budgets thinking they are going to compete against Amazon. Ki-l the store and that entire team...that will save an enormous amount of money!
Have no fear, their new USB security token dongle will fix everything that 2FA, and certificates weren't already addressing.
So anyone knows the upcoming layoff would go majority on SSD or HDD BU?
You are an id--t to think that is a sign of the end. This was a result of the breach and the store will be back up soon.
WDC is one half of the HDD duopoly and one of SSD main players. It will not going anywhere for a while. That being said, SSD is most likely spun off and merged with Kioxia. There'll be Samsung, Hynix, Micron, and WD/Kioxia at the end of the day. I won't be surprised if merge with Micron happens too.