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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by eru on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:34AM (#12186385)
Doesn't matter too much what Google/Alphabet shareholders think. The controlling majority is with the founders, and the company is not going to the markets anytime soon to ask for more capital.
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by melling on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:06AM (#12186539)
"any time soon" What exactly does that mean? The next two years? If people start dumping your stock, I'm sure there will be repercussions.
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by eru on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:45AM (#12192050)
What kind of repercussions? Please elaborate.

The only result of a lower stock price that I can see is that Google employees might demand cash instead of stock for compensation. (But Google still does make enough in cash.)

And by 'demand' I mean: get unhappy, be more likely to leave, and for new hires, be more likely to take up alternative offers instead.

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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by knowaveragejoe on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:03AM (#12187267)
Well, to be fair, people probably won't be dumping their stock over this news.
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Re:Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016 by melling on Friday July 29, 2016 @11:46AM (#12187586)
To be really fair, I didn't say they would. I was addressing the long-term impact of spending large sums of money without any clear benefit.

People are usually content while a company is growing fast enough.

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