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tandr | 9 months ago

    > And who's worth the most? Companies that lose money.
I am failing to see the logic in this, sorry.

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vel0city|9 months ago

It's a quote from a character from the TV show Silicon Valley. Russ Hanneman is a SV billionaire who made a lot of money putting "radio on the internet". He's intentionally a wild card character acting as if he has enormous business insight while often being at least partially if not fully wrong in his ideas. It's a parody of SV business ventures not having any real plan to make the business profitable, they're just wanting to show crazy growth in metrics like user counts to justify extreme valuations to sell the company and walk away before the music stops. "I don't want to make a little bit of money every day, I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once."

The next couple of lines:

"Pintrest, Snapchat, no revenue. Amazon has lost money for every fucking quarter for the last 20 fucking years and that Jeff Bezos is the king"

https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Russ_Hanneman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

tandr|9 months ago

Thank you, I haven't watched the show. But by the sound of it - that logic and his "style" in general are not that far from what "real life" characters are arguing about.