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Re:Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco by 55555 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:53PM (#27828655)
> I think a pretty weird quirk of history is that if you squint hard enough Aramco is technically a Silicon Valley startup, with beginnings in San Francisco that was one of the largest IPOs of 2020.

It looks like the company that became Aramco was Chevron, which was a result of Standard Oil's break up. So not sure I'd call it a startup. But if I squint even harder, and I consider their investment to simply be VC money, then it sorta makes sense, but if I squinted any harder my eyes would be fully closed. Am I missing something?

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Re:Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco by nemothekid on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:17PM (#27829252)
>Am I missing something?

Nope you aren't, it's already a pretty wild stretch of the imagination; it's just a fun anecdote.

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