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I am not saying Facebook should stop growing. It should just not keep dumping money in these unproven projects, and they should get some people on board to fix
by Cwizard 4y ago
I am not saying Facebook should stop growing. It should just not keep dumping money in these unproven projects, and they should get some people on board to fix their cost structure.
Apple and Microsoft are much more mature companies than Facebook is. Microsoft had major restructuring a couple of years ago. And I think Apple also had some major reforms internally around 2015-16 to make its operations more efficient. Apple accumulated a massive amount of cash over that period.
I am not as much into it anymore as I sold most of my holdings near the end of the pandemic. So maybe things have changed since then.
Netflix is another company I have serious questions about. Not sure about their current situation but around 2017 when I looked into them, they were essentially a company that sells you a dollar for 99c. Their ratio internal content/external content was not high enough which meant they had massive recurring licensing costs which they funded by a mix of subscriptions revenue and debt (a lot of debt). The story was that that would be ok once they reached ‘scale’ as costs would be the same but they would have more subs. In my opinion that logic is flawed since presumably the cost of the licensing deals will also rise as more players entered the market and content holders got less money from traditional sources (because everyone uses those subscriptions services now). Netflix made sense when they were able to buy the content for cheap because they were niche.
My opinion of course. Im just a random dude on the internet.
- scarface74 4y ago> I am not saying Facebook should stop growing. It should just not keep dumping money in these unproven projects, On the Apple side, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad, and the watch were all unproven projects. On the Microsoft side, giving up immediate revenue from selling Office for $600 - seat into a subscription service for $69-$99 a year had to be a short term revenue hit. Not to mention XBox which loss billions before becoming successful and Azure. Meta doesn’t have a choice. I really hate the Facebook product. Not because of the privacy angle, it commits the worse sin of any product - it just sucks now. Most of the post I see aren’t even from people let alone brands and websites I chose to follow.