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Dean's avatar

The amount of money already spent kind of creates it's own gravity to keep this bubble from popping.

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Geoffrey Tully's avatar

I get the idea of excessive gravity preventing popping, but as I read your comment I instantly got an image of a black hole; implosion.

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Dean's avatar

Good point! These tech companies now days have so much runway especially when they stay private. It's like reality doesn't matter.

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Aaron Turner's avatar

That's the spent cost fallacy

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jibal jibal's avatar

That's what people said of other bubbles before they burst ... notably the dot-com bubble.

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Paul Topping's avatar

Venture capitalists are well aware of the sunk-cost fallacy. They'll be the ones pulling the plugs and, I suspect, very soon now.

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