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What's your point? How many Pointcasts there are and how many Facebooks there are is irrelevant. All that matters is whether groupon is a Facebook or Pointcas
by j_baker 16y ago
What's your point? How many Pointcasts there are and how many Facebooks there are is irrelevant. All that matters is whether groupon is a Facebook or Pointcast.
- okaramian 16y agoOr somewhere in between, but what really matters is who ends up making money in the transaction. If there are more Pointcasts than Facebooks that would infer that it would be statistically more probable for this company to be overvalued than undervalued. Pointing to outliers and using those as examples of good decisions doesn't seem very wise. Sometimes you get lucky and hit it big, that's how the game works. Sometimes that risk bites you down the road, a la Pointcast.
- j_baker 16y ago"Pointing to outliers and using those as examples of good decisions doesn't seem very wise." It's wise if you are an outlier. And Groupon seems to be an outlier to me.
- chunkbot 16y agoThe implication is that it is far more likely that Groupon is a "Pointcast" than a "Facebook". But the statement that there are "far more Pointcasts than there are Facebooks" is impossible to falsify.