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Uber, Google Search Engine, Facebook, etc.
by woolvalley 8y ago
Uber, Google Search Engine, Facebook, etc.
- scarejunba 8y agoNone of them have done anything on this scale, have they? They’re valuable because they don’t make investments like this. Their work is on a long lever so they have great margins over massive volume.
- ahakki 8y agoI’m pretty sure Uber has terrible margins :)
- scarejunba 8y agoHaha, or potential for great margins, right. It's not one big project that costs $100 bil, right. There's very little incrementality to HSR, etc.
- masonic 8y agoGoogle has spent over $200 million on land alone... in the valley alone... just in the past month. I heard that it seriously depleted HQ's petty cash fund. (But seriously, these were, in fact, all-cash deals.)
- scarejunba 8y agoYeah, but they don't do that every month. And $200 million is 1/500 of 100 billion. This is like the difference between going to a nice restaurant and buying a McLaren P1. Or spending all your money as an L7 at Google vs. going to space yourself.