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by brianwawok 920 days ago
So what is the alternative? You can have a fully private company.. but most of those focus on squeezing cash out. A few are more "benefit the world" style which is great, but I don't think its the popular thing.

The biggest drawback is stock investors are too short sighted, and value things that are good for 1 quarter and bad for 10 years.

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> So what is the alternative?

That shareholders and execs accept a few quarters of low/no growth? Infinite growth quarter-over-quarter is madness.

Somehow get companies to be like Valve.
I'm not the only one who thinks that.

Whatever happened with Valve, it should be repeated