[londons_explore]

Only for companies who are profitable or might be profitable in the future.

If the company has no chance at future profit, it becomes a simple share of assets. There are plenty of companies with assets only and no revenue or employees.

[marcus_holmes]

There are tons of examples of unprofitable companies, with no visible prospect of ever becoming profitable, trading at increasingly-higher values. Every tech bubble has their share of these.

[merb]

yeah but 23andme was already falling when she wanted to buy the shares. It was overvalued and people already lost trust at the site.

[n4r9]

Are assets not also worth "what somebody wants to pay for them"?