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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The paper loss is still critically important though.

"Oh don't worry about that 64 billion. That's just something or other the accountants dreamed up. You know what those buzz-harshing assholes are like."

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  • [–] 0 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    It's not as important as you might think. Counter intuitively it's tied to success as a risky start up. Or arguably they should have got better terms during one of their raises - but hindsight and all that.

    For the record I wouldn't by them for 1.5 trillion dollars.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (3 children)

    Its important to the people deciding whether to give them more money.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (2 children)

    As a selling point that they can deliver incredible ROI?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Well, no. In this case it's an indicator that their funding model has costs.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    They do a raise and give an investor 10% of the company (or more accurately a claim), the company receives 10 billion dollars (valuing the company at 100 billion)

    A year later the company is worth 1 trillion dollars. That investor's claim is now worth 100 billion dollars. And then the 90 billion is booked as a liability and so a loss. If they IPO, that 10% gets converted to shares. The liability is gone.

    Good for the investor. The startup needed the cash, so good for them. I'm sure they aren't crying that their company is valued at a trillion dollars.

    Should it be worth that much? That's different.

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