The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

You know, we look at these economic busts or these market crashes, and it’s obvious in hindsight what spectacular opportunities there they were. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. And I think eventually they’ll be a B2C company.

Startup 148

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The Big Picture

MARCH 25, 2025

Valuations tended to crash and burn very, very cheap valuations tended to do well. So, the reason I am an economics, I have a degree in economics. The reason for that was I had maybe six more credits, four to six more credits in economics than I had in history. Right, right. Very, very high. That’s right.

Management 148

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And it, you know, it was a very challenging economic environment. These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. The other thing that’s different is, is that today the companies with the most spectacular valuation levels are private. We’ll buy the rest of it at a, a full valuation, which we did.

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