Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by untog on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:08PM (#12801875)

You can trot out that 640k comment to sell any piece of technology, it doesn't make it true. I could have said the same about Google Glass.

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by beambot on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:55PM (#12802100)

Indeed you could. And sometimes you'd be right; other times you'd be dead wrong. If you could be right even half the time, you'd be rich as all get out. Which is why I would suggest: Don't make overreaching bold predictions (or become an investor).

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by flukus on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:30PM (#12802500)

I'm right way more than half the time. How do I get rich predicting $newTech will fail?

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by jmickey on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:27AM (#12802909)

Short the stock :)

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by xeromal on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:16AM (#12804819)

Go for it flukus! Easy peasy! If what you say is true, you can probably become a millionaire before the decade is out!

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by mdrzn on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:16AM (#12805258)

and be ready to pay for as long as you're wrong.

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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO by erikpukinskis on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:24AM (#12803595)

Being right about half of failures isn't worth anything. You can't short SnapChat Spectacles.

You need to be right about half of successes, which is much harder for a raging pessimist like OP.

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