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Frierentoday at 10:10 AM1 replyview on HN

> We need to stop pretending the VC valuations are meaningful.

When I was a kid, the valuation of a company was based on the amount of profit that it did taking into account the cost of getting it.

The day that the USA abandoned capitalism for speculative-finance was a bad day for the world economy.


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senordevnyctoday at 10:54 AM

The valuation of a company was never based solely on its current profits.

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