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Re:My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story by opportune on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:18PM (#37104312)
Those companies have generated hundreds of thousands of extremely high paying jobs because hundreds of millions of consumers/many businesses chose to give them money.
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Re:My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story by AndrewKemendo on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:39PM (#37104484)
“Sure we destroyed the earth, but a lot of shareholder value was created for a moment there”
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Re:My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story by refulgentis on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:44PM (#37104511)
That's a cute little quip but it's about climate change, not a complaint about the US having a relatively high amount of venture capital funding.
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Re:My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story by opportune on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:51PM (#37104945)
Tell me exactly how these companies are destroying the earth. Snark isn’t an argument

My point isn’t even about shareholder value. Both consumers and very many employees have benefitted from these companies’ existence.

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