[FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

[Owen Densmore]

Kinda weird Google is lowest.

Puzzle: How can the provider of the world's most popular phone OS not
profit from it? Maybe they do but it is small compared to the rest of their
work.

   -- Owen

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For comparison:
>
> Google PE > 30
> Amazon PE > 170
> Netflix PE > 330
>
> Frank Wimberly
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>
> On Mar 16, 2017 10:37 AM, "glen ☣" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps it's not beside the point at all.  P/E normalizes the price based
>> on one frame of mind, which I suppose is whether you can make money off
>> it.  Making money implies a time window and some sort of zero sum bucket of
>> money (where P goes out and E comes in).  But a more objective (perspective
>> invariant) normalizer might send an entirely different message,
>> particularly one that includes the extent the company is leveraged.
>>
>> Regardless, from the little I know about it (2 friends who work there and
>> a slew of interviews a decade ago), they have/had very little tolerance for
>> constituents setting their own agenda.  My interactions with Google were
>> drastically different.  They seemed willing to entertain literally _any_
>> idea (the overwhelming majority of which are selected against immediately,
>> of course).  I chalked this up to their sources of money, which is a
>> type/kind of liquidity.  If you have more ways of making money (selling
>> products to rich hipsters vs. advertising to anyone), you'll be more
>> willing to let the constituents try out their own pet project, build their
>> own sub-org.
>>
>>
>> On 03/15/2017 06:05 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>> > It's beside the point, but Apple has a low stock price.  PE < 17.
>>
>>
>> --
>> ☣ glen
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