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- From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- References: <1992Dec21.145115.25441@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <8dbbhl3@Unify.Com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:58:00 GMT
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- In article <8dbbhl3@Unify.Com>, veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf) writes:
- >
- > If Gates would have been able to get 5.5 Billion dollars out of
- > Microsoft this would mean that Microsofts totalled profits of the
- > last years would be about 40 billion dollars. Impossible.
- > The answer why Gates is worth so much is simple: Stock Market.
- > Speculators drove up the price of Microsoft, and as its founder
- > he profitted the most. He then reinvested his profits....
-
- Yikes, get thee to an economics course! The market value of a stock only
- depends on the past to the extent of the current balance sheet. The most
- important determinant of Microsoft's market value is the expected future
- earnings not the level of profits earned in the past. That's what makes
- Gates stock worth 7 or 8 billion. It has nothing to do with speculators ...
-
- >
- > This is it. Look at other people like Jobs or Kahn. How did they
- > make their initial wealth? Stocks in their own company. It's that
- > easy (if you can make a startup company successful -- this is the
- > problem!)
-
- How do you rationalize this wonderful logical leap of faith?
-
- --rick
-
-