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Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#21
Is their site's theme a common, commercially available theme? It looks an awful lot like Envato's marketplace...

Their site: http://site.introbiz.com/

Envato's: http://www.themeforest.com

Edit:

Looks like a ripoff:

http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/envato-clone-with-a-mar...

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#22
post #7

It's almost certainly a pump and dump operation or a target of opportunity by a pump and dump operation. Assuming it doesn't get delisted by the SEC first, it will continue for a few days and then suddenly lose 98%+ percent of that valuation in a matter of hours. Edit: Yep, see their financial statement. https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById.pdf... It's even worse than you would otherwise think.

I'm not knowledgeable when it comes to the stock market, but can't you short these guys and make lots of money?

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#24
My amusing thought experiment is that two startups could easily give themselves billion dollar revenue as follows:

1. Startup A sells 2 twin puppies to startup B at $500M each.

2. Startup B sells 4 hand-drawn logos to startup A for $250M each.

Each books $1B in revenue and each also books $1B in expenses so as to avoid tax.

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#25
post #24

My amusing thought experiment is that two startups could easily give themselves billion dollar revenue as follows: 1. Startup A sells 2 twin puppies to startup B at $500M each. 2. Startup B sells 4 hand-drawn logos to startup A for $250M each. Each books $1B in revenue and each also books $1B in expenses so as to avoid tax.

From what I know (and I am not a finance professional), the hot-airiest phase of the dot.com bubble sort of looked like this. You had a ton of startups selling each other things and advertising with each other. It was not planned, but unplanned "emergent" bubbles are the most effective since nobody really realizes what's going on until the bubble is far enough along to keep rising out of greed and inertia.

As for what's happening now... armchair speculation...? We're in something that almost looks like half bubble half depression. Wages are stagnant or falling, costs of necessities are rising, but there's a huge amount of money sloshing around and pumping up everything from potato salad to cryptocurrencies based on a shiba inu dog meme to obvious pink sheet scams. The average person is drowning in student loan and mortgage debt and is unable to afford to start a family (I know a number of these folks -- none are dumb or lazy) but... Dogecoin and potato salad. Yeah.

Maybe the sum total of all the quant trading algorithms in global markets have achieved sentience and subsequently gone insane with the realization of who/what their creators actually are. Since they have no mouth and must scream, they're doing it by way of financial dadaism.

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

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post #7

It's almost certainly a pump and dump operation or a target of opportunity by a pump and dump operation. Assuming it doesn't get delisted by the SEC first, it will continue for a few days and then suddenly lose 98%+ percent of that valuation in a matter of hours. Edit: Yep, see their financial statement. https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById.pdf... It's even worse than you would otherwise think.

I'm not knowledgeable when it comes to the stock market, but can't you short these guys and make lots of money?

You have to borrow stock to short it. The only person that owns worthless penny stock that's being pumped & dumped is the pumper and dumper, who will act to inflate the price more.

Stay far away from scams.

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#27
post #7

It's almost certainly a pump and dump operation or a target of opportunity by a pump and dump operation. Assuming it doesn't get delisted by the SEC first, it will continue for a few days and then suddenly lose 98%+ percent of that valuation in a matter of hours. Edit: Yep, see their financial statement. https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById.pdf... It's even worse than you would otherwise think.

I'm not knowledgeable when it comes to the stock market, but can't you short these guys and make lots of money?

Yup, Timothy Sykes is a former penny stock promoter that does exactly that

Re: Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B

#30

Is their site's theme a common, commercially available theme? It looks an awful lot like Envato's marketplace... Their site: http://site.introbiz.com/ Envato's: http://www.themeforest.com Edit: Looks like a ripoff: http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/envato-clone-with-a-mar...

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