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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Jul 2020

    "Experienced venture capitalists are happy to take the risk on hypothetical products for early-stage startups, but the stock market hasn’t figured out how to 'price in' products that are yet to be created by established public companies."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-16/tesla-and-apple-valuations-could-help-covid-19-economic-recovery?srnd=opinion&sref=UK7jmoW6 …

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      2. DegenJulian‏ @degen_julian 16 Jul 2020
        Replying to @blankcheckcap @paulg

        I was just going to say this haha.

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      1. Shankhadip Majumder‏ @Majjubizman 16 Jul 2020
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        I think there is a conflict between two schools of thought - one that says the company is to be valued to the degree of its demonstrated earning potential, while the other potential earning potential. In a fast-moving, disruptive world the second one wins.

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      2. Investing & Sports‏ @investingnsport 16 Jul 2020
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        once you’ve proven the ability to pull the rabbitt out of the hat once the market tends to give you the value of future rabbits - regardless of if they’re in the hat or not. I am thinking AMZN as an example.

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      1. macmar‏ @sks01119 16 Jul 2020
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        The market did a pretty good job 'pricing in' amazon and tesla the last few years.

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      2. Eggnik‏ @EggNik 16 Jul 2020
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        I’ve experienced large existing companies invest in disruptive innovation “privately” (by setting up the equivalent of a startup wothin the firm but w/o legacy constraints.) Presumably this is a defensive tactic as well (survive by destroying the older model yourself...

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      3. Eggnik‏ @EggNik 16 Jul 2020
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        ...so preventing another doing that.) It’s tough to see inside of that effort - certainly it would get diluted into other corp results anyway - and I would suspect early success would not be touted; in fact touting such disruptive success would signal trouble with the main ...

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      1. Vi‏ @Dramaibaaz 16 Jul 2020
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        There is always scope of constructive criticism. And TBH there some crazy valuations going on across the globe.

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      1. grant‏ @grantbelden 16 Jul 2020
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        🙄 yes public companies never create new products, hedge fund analysts the world over are all having seizures behind their Bloomberg terminals

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