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257 million dollars is nothing, I don't know . PSG , REAL MADRID, BARCELONA, NFL TEAMS... they spend 100 times that in a single summer.
by xHopen 9y ago
257 million dollars is nothing, I don't know . PSG , REAL MADRID, BARCELONA, NFL TEAMS... they spend 100 times that in a single summer.
- slyfocks 9y agoThis is an absurd comparison—major sports teams bid for extremely scarce talent, and they generally have the revenue to support large talent purchases (which have never been anywhere close to the price of Neymar). No file storage startup with minimal operations needs or deserves this much money. They’re not in an industry with high initial fixed costs and they’re not labor-intensive like an Uber or Instacart.
- _pmf_ 9y ago> This is an absurd comparison—major sports teams bid for extremely scarce talent If you watch closely, the increased prices payed by sports teams are calculated in such a way to lower operating profit for the "team" (i.e . company) to a tax friendly point.
- quickthrower2 9y agoAny links? I'd be interested to know more.
- adtac 9y agoUhh, they absolutely don't. Real Madrid held the record for the costliest summer at €250m-ish IIRC.
- lightbyte 9y agoPSG spent ~400m on two players this summer, but that still is not even 2x what OP said, let alone 100.