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Facebook probably doesn't really need info from tracking users outside Facebook. They already have plenty of info about what people are doing while logged into Facebook.
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Why is it not feasible to short Tesla?
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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There are limits to what you can do with superior but imperfect knowledge though. E.g. everyone knows Tesla stock is overvalued - even Elon tweets about it. And yet it's not really feasible to profit off this knowledge.
Why is it not feasible to short Tesla?
There are also lots of examples there of people gambling on TSLA shooting to the moon and making a killing this year.
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> They can’t hire people with good ideas anymore because as we know money isn’t a great motivator This is not entirely true. I have seen excellent people go to Facebook because they gave out the highest offers. Now whether they get people with good ideas is something I don't know.
I spent five years golden handcuffed at Facebook and hired a large number of brilliant, driven people there. Most of them are still there because of the obscenely large sums of money Facebook pays to keep them there. Note that Facebook does not do counteroffers, and instead makes sure to keep the best people financially motivated to stay each year.
So you name an amount and either take you or not?
Anyone who can successfully predict downfall of large publicly traded companies can work for a hedge fund and make tens of millions of dollars a year. Anyone who cannot predict such events can write articles for a magazine claiming otherwise. At least it helps sell their speaking and consulting engagements.
It's also pretty naive reasoning. Author thinks a significant enough number of people are going to care? Facebook has survived- no, thrived despite multiple public scandals, some of which were far more substantive than complaining about Apple's privacy policy.
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Because it assumes a rational market. And the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
who is this a quote of? seems like common knowledge here.
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The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Isn't that a market failure then? If the founder and CEO of the company says the company is over-valued, there should be someone in a position to capitalize on that information.