Comment by crote

3 days ago

You're forgetting about dividend, and off-market trade.

If a company is worthless if it isn't public, then IKEA would be absolute garbage. Quite strange for a company making hundreds of millions in profit for its owners.

The insane valuations for selling a dream are what make VC worthwhile.

TSLA would be worth crap if it were a private company giving off dividends. It is really truly about the insane valuations driven by collective delusion.