[inflatableDodo]

>which could take forever depending on investor taste for losses

If the existing investors had much more of a taste for losses, why the IPO?

[toomuchtodo]

Stupid retail money. Greater fool theory.

[inflatableDodo]

But if the existing investors thought that Uber will win if they only just piss away a bit more money, they would have dumped the money in rather than let the stock go to the public.

[toomuchtodo]

Yes.

[inflatableDodo]

So therefore we have a very good idea of the taste for losses amoung existing Uber investors. And the taste for losses in the stock market is fairly guessable.