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Comment by huhkerrf

3 days ago

You're not wrong, but also, it's a bit of hindsight bias: how many sure thing acquisitions whither?

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latexr  3 days ago

They don’t need to be “sure things”, only threats. Once you buy the threat, whether it continues to thrive or withers is largely immaterial, the threat is gone.

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