• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    If anything this shows how totally fucked equity markets are.

    • Predicted $732MM revenue, reported $805MM (10% higher than projected)
    • Expected 54MM DAU, got 53.2MM (1.5% lower than projected)
    • Expected daily users growth of 130.07MM, actual growth 130.3MM (0.2% higher than projected)

    So they’re making way more money than expected, but they haven’t sold out their users fast enough so dump the stock?

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        4 hours ago

        I’m a big fan of employee owned companies and I think that should be encouraged.

        At the same time, there IS a place for investors.

        But all 3 factors of production (land, labor, capital) are supposed to have equal seats at the table. In recent years capital owns the table and chairs and decides when land and labor are allowed to speak, which is not what successful capitalism looks like.

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          16 hours ago

          How will employees raise for any kind of cap-ex? This simply does not work in practice.

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            16 hours ago

            The current system has folks raising cap-ex by selling bits of control in their company, but this is a thread about how that system has failed to both expand capacity and increase the utility of reddit. So. IDK, they could raise money with bonds or grants or something. It doesn’t really matter too much because the current system simply doesn’t work in practice either.

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      24 hours ago

      53.2 million daily active users, which is down from 53.5 last quarter. US DAU is shrinking.

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        4 hours ago

        A small blip. Not enough to trigger a sell-off, but also if it was a reason that would be the stated reason not just ‘no new AI deals’.

        As a user, the decline in DAU I think is representative of a series of user-unfriendly policies and changes that the users have clearly communicated dislike of but management insists on anyway.