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That's the value of the stock, which is distinct from the quality of the product. You can make a lot of money selling bad products for a high price. (At least if they are bad for users but good for businesses)


I'm sure there are different ways to compute value, but I'm having a hard time finding one where they're a flop.

- cash on hand: $17 billion

- revenue 2024: $62 billion

- total employees: 294,000

- Fortune 500 ranking: 63rd.

- total customers: hard to estimate, approx. 100,000 worldwide

How are we defining 'flop' in this context? The metrics don't seem to show it.


Suppose they have an amazing sales team and shit software.


... then they're wildly successful. It seems the key takeaway here is "You can write just-good-enough software, sell it well to people for whom it solves real problems they have, and succeed."

Probably something all of us in the venture, startup, service-sector-tech space could stand to learn.




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