Jon Quast
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4d ago
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I believe that we could even say it's overvalued right now.
And I think some of our listeners just heard me say the market is going to crash.
I didn't say that.
I said the market is overvalued right now.
This is a good time to be a seller if you want to raise some money.
And
That goes for the companies themselves, but as you point out, the venture capitalists, right?
I love the Warren Buffett quote, the only reason to put money into a company is so you can have more money later.
These venture capitalists, they want to have a way to have liquidity, get their returns on investment that they've had so far.
So they need this.
Yeah, I mean, it might be surprising to our listeners that Alphabet owns shares of a company, but it's actually not unusual at all with its Google Ventures in the past.
I think it's just called GV now, but it's invested pre-IPO in companies such as Uber, Lyft and Robinhood.
And when those companies went public, it didn't sell right away.
Now, it did sell.
afterwards sell, but Robinhood, it waited a couple of years.
Uber and Lyft, it waited longer than that.
It did eventually sell, but it patiently held those stakes even as they increased in value early on.
And I think that that would point to probably Alphabet, if it is going to be a seller, probably wouldn't be a very quick seller here, would probably hold onto the stake just using history as a guide.
That said, back when it held those stakes in the other companies, it wasn't looking at potential negative free cash flow like it is right now.
So, I mean, it is different circumstances this time than in the past.
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