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I worked in both large public and large private companies. There is a lot of grifting in large public companies. With our conversation, all my unpleasant memories about this came back flooding (I happen to have a short memory for unpleasant things). Large private companies used to be more disciplined but these days there are a lot of large venture backed private companies, which exhibit a lot of moral hazard w/r/t cash use / allocation, especially those private companies that are venture backed by large public companies. Many of the ventured backed private companies these days do not have the founder / employee liquidity constraints as they offer employees an opportunity to sell on the secondary market. I was involved in writing off billions of dollars of such misallocations, not counting the amounts paid to the biggest of the hoggers, the large consulting companies.
That inauguration photo with the big tech CEOs was chilling for the direction we are headed. Complete regulatory capture!
Sounds like there's a lot more friction than there used to be.
Tom Bowley (mentioned and quoted extensively by one of the posters) was uber bearish and sold portfolio to 100% cash on Friday (https://youtube.com/watch?v=t2QIKw-O2wg). Today, he is live streaming his webinar titled "Bearish Signals Abound: Navigate the Uncertainty" on Youtube in 50 minutes -
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https://www.youtube.com/live/axOGOHPHADE
Not a recommendation, just an FYI.