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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

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As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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Amazon Ad Revenue To Surpass Cloud Sales By 2021

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be the driver of growth for the eCommerce giant now, but Piper Jaffray predicts that in three years’ time, advertising will bring in more revenue for Amazon. The analyst has a $2,100 price target on Amazon.

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Twitter Whiffs On Ad Revenue

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In the age of sky-high valuations, brands will look anywhere for hard numbers that prove they’re actually worth what they say they are. With ad revenue such an obvious source of income for the company, Bain brainstormed on the call how Twitter might look at new features to make it a more attractive platform for advertisers.

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Credit Unions? Bid To Bridge The Challenger Bank Perception-vs.-Reality Gap

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According to Chambers, part of the would-be interest from CU members may stem from the fact that challenger banks have been blanketing the airwaves — digital and otherwise — with advertising on a large scale. Their marketing budgets are deeper and bigger, and they are national,” said Chambers of these and other digitally-focused firms.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. The Hotel Business The hotel business is both large and diverse, composed of hotels that range the spectrum from luxury to budget.

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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

Barry Ritholtz

And she has really managed to accomplish tremendous things, not just at Microsoft, where she ran MSNs advertising and marketing, not just at Yahoo or Pinterest, but even a small startup like Honey, which she was president and sold pretty quickly to PayPal for $4 billion. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. It was fun.