@boem to TechnologyEnglish • 7 months agoYouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block adswww.androidpolice.commessage-square407arrow-up1630arrow-down123cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarebravesirrbn ☑️linkEnglish9•7 months agoOne thing I genuinely don’t get: why does a company making this much money need “investors”? (Other than participating in the make-rich-people-richer scheme)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months agoOnce you’ve gone public, unless some entity could do an offer to take you private, you have investors (aka owners). To take Google private would be in the region of 2.5 trillion dollars. Even the Norwegian oil fund would struggle to do that.
One thing I genuinely don’t get: why does a company making this much money need “investors”? (Other than participating in the make-rich-people-richer scheme)
Once you’ve gone public, unless some entity could do an offer to take you private, you have investors (aka owners).
To take Google private would be in the region of 2.5 trillion dollars. Even the Norwegian oil fund would struggle to do that.
Because they own the company