Microsoft hits $2T market value • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft hits $2T market value

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Post by ralusek » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:09 AM UTC

robjan wrote: post #18

ralusek wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

prints 40% of money supply in 12 months .

Market price is based on the price of the last trade in the instrument, not the total money put into it

Yes, the price of which will have been set by demand, which as for everything else, will be influenced by the supply of money. If we hypothetically gave every person one million dollars, surely you understand that the price of stocks would increase dramatically?

Re: Microsoft hits $2T market value

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Post by msisdead » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 1:08 PM UTC

xref wrote: post #20

msisdead wrote: post #14

Time for a two minute silence for the genius who predicted in 2008 that "microsoft is dead". Thank god though, he's not into vc or tech related business, otherwise his utterlack of insight and foresight into markets would have gotten him kicked.

Who said that? Guess it’s not as famous as Michael Dell’s 1997 advice to Apple https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/448147/today-...

You can search in quotes, and you'll suddently realise his genius.

Re: Microsoft hits $2T market value

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Post by HWR_14 » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

xref wrote: post #19

HWR_14 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bill Gates owned 49% of MSFT in 2007. He could have already hit 1 trillion by doing nothing.

Supposedly he owned 49% when they went public in 1986, down to 24% in 1996, down to 1.3% in 2017, for anyone interested. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148370/bill-gates-micro... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-gates-idUSBREA4...

Thank you, I misremembered when he started divesting. I thought he maintained his shares until halfway through he Ballmer CEOship.

Re: Microsoft hits $2T market value

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Post by openmosix » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

xref wrote: post #20

msisdead wrote: post #14

Time for a two minute silence for the genius who predicted in 2008 that "microsoft is dead". Thank god though, he's not into vc or tech related business, otherwise his utterlack of insight and foresight into markets would have gotten him kicked.

Who said that? Guess it’s not as famous as Michael Dell’s 1997 advice to Apple https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/448147/today-...

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

Re: Microsoft hits $2T market value

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Post by naveen99 » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 11:54 PM UTC

It would be nice to get a more frequent and more transparent valuation on global wealth than the credit Suisse annual report. Then we can just follow the monetary unit which is just a ratio to the total number. So microsoft is approximately 0.4% currently. This number is essentially independent of inflation.