• subversive_dev
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    11 days ago

    LOL.

    Headline should read: “The two most notorious money burners in all of tech team up to start a new money bonfire”

    • Alphane MoonOPM
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      411 days ago

      The honestly seems more like a PR initiative and an overall oligarch/corruption alignment ritual of sorts.

      • subversive_dev
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        210 days ago

        I think that’s what THEY think it is.

        I just predict this will get absolutely crushed by the “megaprojects curse”

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      10 days ago

      Oh yeah, when I saw Masayoshi San up there, I couldn’t help but think of WeWork and every other crap-ass startup he blew Saudi money on.

        • FlashMobOfOne
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          210 days ago

          Not always a bad thing, provided a company has a good long-term strategy. Amazon, at the beginning, burned through a ton of cash underpricing competitors in order to drive them out of business.

          WeWork did it to make their CEO rich and so he could look cool, somewhat less of a good strategy.

            • FlashMobOfOne
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              210 days ago

              I don’t recall the exact numbers, TBH. I just recall that for many, many years their cash burn was immense.