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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. It’s relative: The first is that it was not just Airbnb that felt the pain from the economic shut down.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. What’s the valuation? So that comes out in position sizing and conviction and just making sure that you’re thinking about all the things that could go wrong if you’re taking a more concentrated position in something. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Payments’ Stranger Things

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During Facebook’s Q2 quarterly results last month, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg said monetization beyond advertising across all of the platforms that Facebook operates, including Messenger, was still “early days.”. And these young businesses — young as in less than a year old — have now raised capital based on multibillion-dollar valuations.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. We thought it was free advertising for their index, but I guess guess they thought that their index was pre advertising for our fund or something.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

Barry Ritholtz

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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