<story><title>Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>A bit of Silly Valley lore: Go graph &quot;Company builds a new campus&quot; against &quot;Company stock falls like a rock.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Atari, 1983.&lt;p&gt;Apple, 1991.&lt;p&gt;Sun (both times, I forget the years).&lt;p&gt;SGI, 1990s.&lt;p&gt;Various other companies (I forget which, it&apos;s been a while). It&apos;s like the hubris builds up to the point where the company is in a natural position to say, &quot;Hey, we need a new campus,&quot; and the Gods decide that a little humiliation is in order as well . . .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>The causation goes the other way around though.  Companies with precipitous stock drops are virtually always ones that had rapid growth leading up to the fall.  Companies experiencing rapid growth generally need more space, and are more likely to &quot;build a new campus&quot; as a way to get that space.</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>A bit of Silly Valley lore: Go graph &quot;Company builds a new campus&quot; against &quot;Company stock falls like a rock.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Atari, 1983.&lt;p&gt;Apple, 1991.&lt;p&gt;Sun (both times, I forget the years).&lt;p&gt;SGI, 1990s.&lt;p&gt;Various other companies (I forget which, it&apos;s been a while). It&apos;s like the hubris builds up to the point where the company is in a natural position to say, &quot;Hey, we need a new campus,&quot; and the Gods decide that a little humiliation is in order as well . . .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lurker19</author><text>Is Seattle different? 
Amazon 2011?&lt;p&gt;Does Microsoft&apos;s 20-year-long campus expansion count?</text></comment>