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Ronan Reid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
128 total appearances

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Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

When you look at the metrics, I saw a comment, someone saying, hey, they're only coming at software values.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

They're coming at massively inflated.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Traditionally, software values at the extreme was five times revenue.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

This is multiples and multiples of that.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

And eventually, markets always normalize.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Like, you know, either share prices come down or earnings go up.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

That's the way it works.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

And I can't yet see the demand.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

And the flip side of that that people haven't learned is if they were all winners, then there'd be less people working.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

then there's less revenue, then there's less other side to it.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

So I think it's somewhere in between that is where it comes down and there will be winners and losers.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

You could see that Jeff Bezos tried to challenge SpaceX on the launch, didn't work.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Like, you know, so things get burnt up quite quickly.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out in terms of the absolute level of capital investment.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Yeah, I think there is.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

I mean, we've already seen constraints, private credit constraints,

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Credit markets have tightened up.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

Interest rates are higher.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

I'm surprised because this is high risk, as what you said earlier, and you raise equity for high risk.

Taking Stock
Is remote working to blame for weak junior hiring, SpaceX & Anthropic IPOs and Robotaxis

You don't raise debt.