Absolutely, not everything they do will succeed but that's okay too, right? At this point their core products are used by 1 in 2 humans on earth. They need to get people to have more kids to expand their user base. They're gonna throw shit at the wall and not everything will stick, and they'll ship stuff that's not quite done, but they do have to keep trying; I can't bring myself to call that "failure."

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thrown-0825 5 days ago | parent [-]

their core product IS 1 of 2 humans on earth.

the product is used by advertisers to sell stuff to those humans.

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butlike 5 days ago | parent [-]

So you're saying the ad revenue sort of allows them to "be their own bank?"

Then they can bankroll their own new entrepreneurial ideas risk-free, essentially.

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thrown-0825 5 days ago | parent [-]

They are a publicly traded company, shareholders are their bank.

	▲	butlike 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		What's a buyback?