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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 3
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      A question from a friend: "Looking back from 2040, what's the largest capex-heavy new company that will be founded in 2020-2025?"

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    2. Harry Heymann‏ @harryh May 3
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      The obvious place to start: looking back from 2020, what's the largest capex-heavy company that was founded in 2000-2005? I....don't know the answer to this.

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    3. Harry Heymann‏ @harryh May 3
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      Possibly Wynn Resorts? Would, of course, be $FB if their datacenter expenses are enough to count it as "capex-heavy." Bit of a vague term there.

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    4. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 3
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      Must surely be Tesla?

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc May 3
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      Replying to @patrickc @harryh

      AstraZeneca also probably up there, though don't know the extent of their capex. [Agree that question is a bit underspecified. Maybe: a lot of capex required before you can meaningfully deliver the product experience at any scale. That covers Tesla but excludes FB.]

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        2. Akshay Kothari‏Verified account @akothari May 4
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          Reliance Jio in India spent ~10s of billions to lay down their data network over the last decade.

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        3. Jochen Doppelhammer‏ @jochendo May 4
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          Smart investment by FB ;-)

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        2. James Harvey‏ @jmhredsox May 3
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          Wasn't AstraZeneca a late-90s merger of two legacy businesses? If we're counting those as new companies from 20 years ago, surely ExxonMobil takes the crown.

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        3. James Birch‏ @provisionalidea May 4
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          Replying to @jmhredsox @patrickc @harryh

          Better example would be any of the six $10B+ biotherapeutics cos started since 1995 -- Actelion, BioMarin, Pharmasset, Seattle Genetics, Kite, and Juno.

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        1. James Birch‏ @provisionalidea May 4
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          Replying to @patrickc @harryh

          Biotechs are all high capex b/c of dev't difficulty + high uncertainty of success of any compound. Winning high-capex biz was always built by regulation and subsidy; this remains true. Reg tilts risk/reward to make the business worth it, and subsidy opens opportunities to many.

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