Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter

Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by nemo44x on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:26PM (#12654811)

If you're at your max level then you need to have been profitable quite awhile ago. They aren't and have never really been close.

And if they were to go for profit now they'd be worth of a market cap of a couple billion - many times lower than what they are now.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by notfromhere on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:55PM (#12655554)

Market cap is more of a measurement of hype around a tech stock rather than its actual value.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by eridius on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:25PM (#12655801)

Market cap is a measurement of what investors think the company's value will be after taking into account future prospects (as opposed to what its value is today without considering the future). This can occasionally lead to weird situations like companies whose market cap is less than the value of the company's assets.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by sbov on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:00PM (#12656067)

Yes, and what investors think of future prospects are influenced by hype.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by paulddraper on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:19PM (#12665323)

...unless your revenue is fine, but you've hired a couple thousand more people than you should.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter by vehementi on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:07PM (#12655173)

And that's fine, right?

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