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Another unhinged HN comment ripped straight from ZeroHedge. Loss making venture funded startups are a small part of cloud revenues. The overwhelming majority of
by xadhominemx 4y ago
Another unhinged HN comment ripped straight from ZeroHedge. Loss making venture funded startups are a small part of cloud revenues. The overwhelming majority of cloud revenue and gross profit comes from stable and profitable enterprise customers who have a 15 year plan to exit the majority of their on prem footprint, and interest rates have little bearing on these plans.
- throwaway894345 4y agoAs someone who doesn't understand finance or economics very well, both the parent comment and yours were interesting, but I don't know why you have to use such an adversarial tone. Your point seems like it stands on its own, no need to go into attack mode.
- xadhominemx 4y agoOP probably considers it a compliment to be compared to zero hedge, so I don’t consider my comment to be aggressive
- throwaway894345 4y agoThere's no charitable way to interpret "unhinged" and "ripped straight from" as anything other than aggressive. Note that I upvoted your original comment despite the hostility because I thought the substance was interesting.
- crmd 4y agoBubbles by definition don’t exit unless the majority of market players temporarily believe that the current trajectory is the new normal and not an anomaly.
- arrosenberg 4y agoYou are replying to someone whose s/n is literally ad hominem.
- morelisp 4y agoThe calculus of whether the premium of someone else's ops team is "worth it" changes drastically as dev salaries stagnate / drop.