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That's a silly comparison. Avatar was made by James Cameron, someone as established as it's possible to be in Hollywood. If Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page or Jef
by __derek__ 11y ago
That's a silly comparison. Avatar was made by James Cameron, someone as established as it's possible to be in Hollywood. If Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page or Jeff Bezos started a new company, then that company would be a good analogue because you aren't going to get the terms that you'd get out of a long-shot like Facebook. A better comparison would be something like Paranormal Activity (12,893x ROI) or the Blair Witch Project (11,111x ROI). Avatar is a good proxy for how much revenue-generation Hollywood is capable of, not its profitability measured by ROI.
- austenallred 11y agoThe point is that the ceiling for the multiple a Hollywood film can return is way lower than the ceiling for the multiple VC can return. The discussion is around paying high prices and still getting a huge return, which makes Avatar a more apt analogy than the Blair Witch Project. That having been said, perhaps the analogy is a bit flawed, but at the going market cap Thiel has a 60,000x return on Facebook (on a large sum of money), and that will likely continue to go up. Even if the analogy is Twitter, started by the already successful Ev, or Slack, started by the already successful Stewart, both are likely to return a greater multiple.
- prbuckley 11y agoI was thinking the same thing, quora has a list of highest ROI films of all times. Most are low budget break away global success's. https://www.quora.com/Which-movies-have-the-highest-Return-on-Investment-ever https://www.quora.com/Which-movies-have-the-highest-Return-o...
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