Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T

Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by eigenspace on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:24PM (#50396211)

There's a beautiful tulip garden just down the street from me, and an outdoor weekly market where tulip bulbs are sold. Tulips are very much still around, I assure you.

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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by lnkdinsuxs on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:25PM (#50396230)

I think bloppe was talking about the Tulip hype cycle that took out many generations.

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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by eigenspace on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:49PM (#50396585)

Yes, that's my entire point. There was also a railroad hype cycle and an internet hype cycle that took in massive amounts of overinvestment, and all three things remained as regular things in the economy with bigger or smaller roles after the hype cycles ended.

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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by bloppe on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:58PM (#50396727)

I don't mean went extinct. I mean the idea that tulips could be an asset class is now laughable, which is not true of the other two. The impact of the tulip industry on GDP is utterly imperceptible.

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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by owebmaster on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:53PM (#50397495)

Same thing could happen with the idea of selling tokens

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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T by bloppe on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:38PM (#50407352)

Ya, or any other asset class

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