SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:14PM (#14871398)

Being publicly traded never necessarily meant you focus on short term. If that were actually true you'd never have seen Intel shelling out $15bn for a fab, or Westinghouse designing nuclear reactors.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by InclinedPlane on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:40PM (#14871782)

Bad example. One of those companies went bankrupt recently.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Friday July 28, 2017 @01:04AM (#14872110)

I realize that, but it doesn't make it a bad example. Certainly the shareholders were taking the long view when they allowed such a massive R&D program to go forward. The fact that it didn't work out is neither here nor there.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by mtgx on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:13AM (#14873371)

So then only the bad companies do it, right? I just want that to be clear.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:27PM (#14875433)

I'm not sure how you got that from what I wrote. Is Intel a bad company?

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