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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by RootKitBeerCat on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:04PM (#20640893)
The strategy of SoftBank and all long term investments is for the companies and products they invest in to blossom into big money producing engines; they don’t care about short term time horizons, so much as picking 10-20% of their investments that will 10-10000x their initial investments over the next 20-50 years.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by davidivadavid on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:09PM (#20640926)
But there's no way they're going to see those return on late stage investments? For Uber to 10x from their current market cap, they'd have to be worth ~$700 bn. That seems hard to achieve, let alone multiples in higher orders of magnitude.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by hkmurakami on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:12PM (#20641210)
You have the stages and return profiles completely mixed up here. What your day is true for early stage. Not the case for late stage
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by pishpash on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:23PM (#20641258)
Was Apple late stage enough in 2000?
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by sushid on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:42PM (#20641360)
Your example is an extreme outlier.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by gingabriska on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:45AM (#20643033)
Yea the unicorns are always outliers. If one of the company actually ends up being Apple, they'll win.
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