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Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by mmaunder on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:08AM (#20991417)
I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. Wtf does "user re-authentication" mean?

They're counting MAUs as number of logins and not number of active users?

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Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by dangxiaopin on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:23AM (#20991523)
I can only interpret that they are talking about logged in users with accounts. The users were logged out during the pre-IPO and that resulted in some double counting in their second post IPO 10-Q.

I was researching this because I asked myself a general question: "Why is the stock price of non dividend paying companies correlated to the performance at all?"

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Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by mmaunder on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:33AM (#20991577)
Ah.

Amazon is a good case study for you. Didn't pay dividends for a decade or more. Reinvested everything. Pissed off analysts. And killed it.

In that world as long as you can keep delivering growth, you're good. Miss once and you're toast.

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Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by kgwgk on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:15AM (#20991819)
> Didn't pay dividends for a decade or more.

Amazon has never paid a dividend.

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