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owaislone · 2018-07-19 23:06:09+00:00

They could and it would make them a few million dollars, not billions of dollars.

dangwu | karma 701 | avg karma 3.83 · | 2021-02-24 22:22:26

Right. They wouldn't need that much money. That's my point.

puranjay | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2021-07-03 07:06:46

But then the amount would be 1/1000 and it wouldn’t be financially lucrative enough

smabie | karma 4907 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2020-09-11 05:36:49+00:00

I mean, if anyone could, they would have hundreds of millions, no?

bleriot | karma 159 | avg karma 5.89 · | 2019-01-30 15:39:41+00:00

Yes, a company at that scale could do it, but they’d have to actually spend some of their $200 billion instead of hoarding it Scrooge McDuck style.

philipov | karma 5318 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2020-07-26 19:31:54

With a hundred billion dollars, they can do both.

spp | karma 0 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2011-09-29 14:16:33

In the context of this discussion, I believe "a few billion dollars" would be pretty cheap.

celticninja | karma 5517 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2021-04-16 08:17:32+00:00

It can be with millions of dollars.

dcanelhas | karma 264 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2023-10-19 05:40:38

Would that generate even more billions in revenue, though?

benologist | karma 12061 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2019-07-23 19:32:07+00:00

They couldn't hoard a quarter trillion dollars while doing it. It would be a nightmare if they only had a hundred and fifty billion to tide them over until their next big thing.

wlievens | karma 1911 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2011-01-04 07:34:27

You can't do that on $500M I'm afraid.

egberts1 | karma 2195 | avg karma 0.71 · | 2022-04-15 21:50:47

One could make billions furtively if they could.

tedunangst | karma 26000 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2012-08-28 16:59:52+00:00

They'd make even more money with five billion people paying $1.

moralestapia | karma 5625 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2021-07-12 15:42:42

I know, but that's still far from making a $1M+-or-so operation with a bunch of cash.

That's the whole point, you just can't drop that much gray money on something at once.

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Simulacra | karma 2212 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2020-05-30 14:56:26+00:00

Would it take millions?

dzhiurgis | karma 3122 | avg karma 0.65 · | 2020-01-20 04:30:27+00:00

No. It would make $468 new zero. Plus none of the billionaires have any cash. You can't split their company imaginary market cap.

Waterluvian | karma 45068 | avg karma 5.19 · | 2020-02-11 07:24:40

Yes? Even a billion dollars? I'm not sure you're actually answering my question.

alive-or-not | karma 57 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2013-10-12 00:28:03+00:00

Not really, having a few million $ is good enough.

swolchok | karma 1906 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2009-08-09 00:57:21+00:00

Why make millions when you could make billions?

paublyrne | karma 2457 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2017-04-27 13:49:09+00:00

I think we're talking about > 50 billion dollars. I'm not sure even those guys have the kind of resources you would need.