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It's quite possible that most startups are worth less than the developers' laptops.
by Tloewald 11y ago
It's quite possible that most startups are worth less than the developers' laptops.
- zachalexander 11y agoTrue, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time.
- DannyBee 11y agoThis may in fact, be wrong, if that laptop is the only way to say, stop and outage costing 100 million a minute. It would be worth $0 most of the time, and ~100 million a minute during that outage. (Rather than IP, let's say the laptop's TPM chip is what is necessary to get access to stop the outage, so it's tied to something real)
- mattmanser 11y agoNo, a laptop is worth what you can sell it for. You're over-thinking this.
- sanoli 11y agoBut companies also (especially startups) are valued by what they might become in the futre.
- Tloewald 11y agoI was taking this into account. Bear in mind that the future value of laptops is very low indeed.