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0 pointsstingrae5y ago0 comments

I wonder how much this has changed with the continued increase in stock values and new companies going public. Uber, Doordash, etc. aren't the losers that they appeared to be even just a couple months ago.

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dragonelite5y ago· 5 in thread

If one thing i have seen stock market != real world economics. You had a car rental go broke and its stock got pumped 500% or so after the fact.

stingraeOP5y ago

sure. But for Softbank, this current bump (which is think is artificial and going to pop) could allow for them to liquidate some of their positions (likely without making too much of a price disturbance) to allow for diversification.

itsoktocry5y ago

>to allow for diversification.

I'm not sure that is or was ever in the plans for SoftBank. "Pump and dump" gets thrown around a lot, but hasn't that been their model? Get in as early your massive dollars allow, promote the hell outta the company, feed the tech/SV/VC ecosystem, cash out, repeat.

yes but for investors the stock market matters, real world be damned.

rtx5y ago

Stock market is real, what's fake is all the modelling they do in excel.

ASalazarMX5y ago

Stock market is real for the few privileged insiders, the rest of us have modest profits or even loses that pay for someone else's profits.

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