overall impressive. noticed a weird quirk of reading $100 million as "one hundred dollar million" instead of one hundred million dollars
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I'll tell you on Tuesday
Please do!
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Sample size doesn't really matter much in this kind of study.
Why not? I’m no statistician, so my basic understanding is you should always prefer bigger sample sizes to ensure statistically significant findings.
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When was the last big tech merger? Can anyone name it? AOL and Time Warner? HP and Compaq? IBM and RedHat?
Big tech as we think of them (FAANG) are remarkably self created. Facebook didn't get big through M&A. Neither did Google or Apple. Of all big tech, Microsoft has the most acquisitions, but still, most their revenue today is from services developed in-house. No one would argue that Microsoft is what it is today because they bought LinkedIn and GitHub.
why is being self-created relevant? The thesis of the bill is that m&a helped big tech accumulate market power, which was later misused anticompetitively, so the government should limit tech companies of a certain market cap from inorganically growing market power to mitigate further abuse.
IMO that logic is very flawed, but it’s still pretty trivial to find examples of how m&a has fueled market power expansion e.g. fb and instagram or google and doubleclick. Anticompetitive behavior is perhaps harder to pin down legally, but we’ve clearly not yet achieved some tech utopia.
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Never heard of Ark. I checked out their site but can anyone give me some context on why they're notable?
Just a stock noob, but they are an investment company which markets things like ETFs for buying baskets of stocks. They are known for being big proponents of Tesla stock before it blew up. Now they seem to be considered thought leaders on what is the next tech stock to achieve Tesla-like returns.