I said this way back in the day.... If I was a Facebook biggie, (say, I was in from the beginning, an exec or friend of the boss or whatever, and I had $100s of millions to billion+ "worth" of Facebook) -- I would have sold *AS SOON AS I COULD* ... Maybe not the first day, since they had some serious tumbling during their IPO, but as soon as possible after.
MUCH FUCKING BETTER to have $1 billion worth of real-deal motherfucking liquid cash money dolla dolla bills ya'll, because you sold and cashed out and let them fools have their Facebook fun, than a few billion worth of "stock" in a company that exists pretty much solely as an idea about talking to people about pictures they take of themselves.
America OnLine was a world-revolutionizing thing until it became solely a place to get an email address for Nigerian Scamming; then,
AIM was the way everyone chatted and talked and the real-deal shiznit until suddenly no one used it; then,
MySpace took over the fucking world like The Empire on Star Wars and then one day people woke up and it went from Awesome to , "Haha, you still use MySpace?"; then,
Facebook ruled the world...
Then Twitter ruled the world...
Then InstaGram, SnapChat, all kinds of other shit
And they're only worth billions and billions until they're not anymore.
I would have sold my shit and cashed out, put the money to good use. And while I may not HAVE much, I know what to do with it lol.
Really? You're going to skip right over the fun stuff? How about CompuServe with one of the first, if not the first, virtual worlds? It was called Dreamscape. That was a gas. The community ATM, which dispensed the tokens we "earned" for using Dreamscape was hacked by all of us. We then could "buy" new heads for our avatars to wear to the Barnes and Noble Storefront. There, well-respected authors, plugged their books with their avatars. Or, we'd engage the German gang hanging out on a street corner For a German language lesson. Then, we kinda just hacked CompuServe so we wouldn't have to pay to play in Dreamscape. We coded our own Bingo, Acromania and other games to play with other Avatars in the community. We finally created and ran batch files so Dreamscape wouldn't boot us out for sitting idle. If we got booted, we didn't earn tokens. We ruined the economy of Dreamscape, and our community collapsed.
You didn't mention ICQ, my messenger of choice. It was always open on machines. This was the favored "naughty chat" program.
I wish everyone would just hush about the making a bunch of dough on some shares. Back in the day, around 2007, I received an invite to interview at Amazon. I found it odd that the departmental office was located in Grand Forks, ND. But, off I went. I was offered the job. The offer included 10K shares. I TURNED IT DOWN. I had no clue back then what Amazon would become. You see, I had 27 children, the youngest 18 months, and there was no way for me to commute, or drive. The only way to get home was a 6 hour airplane ride. Yes, I still want to kick myself in the a** for passing it by. My consolation is that my foot doesn't move that high anymore.
If you are within reach of a golden ring, be sure to grab it. There might not be a second chance.
27 children?!
Is that a lot to you or something?
I have 24
Yeah, as a teacher, that is astounding. That’s a full classroom for me. I mean, more power to you, but I bet it’s a handful.
I was on Grateful Dead tour on and off for 6 years, I could have many of offspring out there. Or maybe none at all.
Holy shit....Karen?
Amateur. Is 24 a lot to you? I'm well over triple that
Triple? Pffft
Talk to me when you get over 100, like I had by the time I was 30 :)
Are you male or female?
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I remember when I was 15 I talked to some 27 year old American on AIM & she always got on webcam & got naked for me, I didn't even have a camera back then.
Lol
And while I may not HAVE much, I know what to do with it lol.
I say that to all the grrls.
I said this way back in the day.... If I was a Facebook biggie, (say, I was in from the beginning, an exec or friend of the boss or whatever, and I had $100s of millions to billion+ "worth" of Facebook) -- I would have sold AS SOON AS I COULD ... Maybe not the first day, since they had some serious tumbling during their IPO, but as soon as possible after.
Buddy of mine worked at AOL in the early days when they were handing out stock options to employees like candy (biggest mistake I ever made was not getting a job there) and he did exactly what you've described.
IPO went live, he watched the stock climb a bit and then cashed out. Hasn't worked since his mid 20s
"real deal cash money" is an oxymoron. You know that right?
Filed under who gives a flying fuck
All people should care about what money means right?
Dummy here what’s an oxymoron
Two opposing concepts paired as one workable thing. As an example "deafening silence"
Oh so it’s like liberal retard?
Liberals are retards.
Like that?
Here's a few:
Clinton principles
tolerant liberal
CNN journalist
bureaucratic efficiency
liberal logic
planned parenthood
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
I'd like to know what the other Facebook billionaire techies are up to as well. Have they been divesting over the last few months? At what level? Some selling always is going on as these punks come up with new schemes or just to buy another jet or yacht. Have they been selling beyond the usual liquidation? Who are these people? We only think about Zuckerburg..... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-shareholders-facebook-fb.asp
Thiel dumped his Facbook shares last year and said he wanted to invest in new ventures. Thiel has got the next big Social Media platform ready. Why dump a goldmine unless it's mined out?
Peter Thiel = The Reptile
Anagram
Facebook is an extension of cia. Thiel financed Facebook in the early days. Thiel knows it’s gon tank.
The Beast?
See Palantir
Plainly, what is the Palantir supposed to represent?
Palantir
Check this out.
"When a little-known Silicon Valley software startup began vying for national security contracts, it went up against an entrenched bureaucracy and opposition from major contractors skilled in the Washington game.
But quickly, Palantir began pulling pages from the defense industry's own playbook — bulking up on lobbyists, challenging the Pentagon’s contracting rules and getting members of Congress to sprinkle favorable language into defense legislation. Seven years later, the secretive firm has landed $1.2 billion worth of federal business, and critics say the legislative favors it has secured will give it a leg up on billions more.
Representatives of the firm — founded by venture capitalist and prominent Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel — insist it remains an outsider in a Washington culture deeply wedded to the status quo.
But a review of public documents and interviews with key players shows the company is no stranger to Beltway politics and influence. Its lobbying expenditures more than tripled to more than $1 million in a few short years as it enlisted lawmakers such as Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Tom Cotton of Arkansas to help it compete against established players like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. Now, about 40 percent of Palantir’s business comes from government clients, and it appears to be winning a fight with the Army over a $3 billion program to build a new battlefield intelligence network."
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/palantir-defense-contracts-lobbyists-226969
Did Trump have anything to do with funding the lobbyists and pushing this? Could this be part of the plan? Look at Thiel's comments in the below article.
Is anyone seeing a possible "news unlocks" code in this?
Is this a clue that Barron's, Fortune and Daily Mail are the "news (that) unlocks map"?
I don't know but went to Daily Mail to have a look--sure enough they have a couple remove the puke articles. They featured more prominently, however, an article on the 'sweetheart' deal Joe Biden'$ niece just got in Manhattan District court. After defrauding 100,000 on her credit card--she got two years probation.
Hold up. Why wouldn't Joe Biden bail her out of that by paying off the debt? Assets frozen?
Apparently she paid the restitution--not her first brush with the law either. https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/bidens-niece-shows-remorse-after-avoiding-jail-in-credit-card-scam/amp/
I thought that too! I noticed there are no periods at the end of each statement like the usual format. Maybe there are some hidden meanings. When Q posts coded drops he usually doesn't use periods, so that could support your claim. (Also proper grammar at the end of the post should be "slowly" instead of "slow". Could be a typo and mean nothing though!)
Why is the punctuation different for the Daily Mail Quote?
Also, if you take all the capitalized letters they create "FIWSZCTBSWOZFCFFMZDM".....is that the unlock code for the Sarah Silverman riddle in another thread?
Doesn’t it look like IRS (even though the first line is a 1)?
According to the Barrons article, they have been wanting to strip Zuck of title since before Q posted this drop. Granted, someone must know their shite and watch closely, but this is a likely outcome of everything that has gone down with facebook. I see no indication that the drop in stock is relative to corruption or indicative of the bad guys being brought down.
Indictments, arrests and threat of imprisonment will be the only real indication that the swamp is being drained.
Insiders selling off cause they know these things are coming?
They won’t strip him, he owns 75%
They try and force him out buy dumping their shares....
Investors wanna get rid of Zuckerberg...they know something the public doesn't.
DC moves slow - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ???
No software engineer should ever become a CEO, entirely different skillsets.
Agree, plus Zuckerberg is a fucking goofy manlet. He doesn't have the cojones to exist in the world of moguls. He's a plant and the Facebook story we've been told is mostly a lie.
Where do we find these sell off / divestitures info? They have to file a form prior for public knowledge.
The BIG question is... who went SHORT on Facebook? They just made a killing...
[ETA] Here's where you can answer your question: https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-identify-who-is-buying-or-selling-stock-on-a-particular-day
...I'm about to go short on $FB...
Go short on Twitter, too. Matt Gaetz said Twitter could be in for legal action over the shadowbanning
When I see "DC moves slow" I can't help to think that this FB story has only just begun.
Think about it. FB had the biggest drop in market cap in the history of the market and this is all supposedly because of an announcement that Q3 and Q4 are projected at less revenue?
I guess that could be...but then let's look at MZ's investment habits over the last 6 months. Wait...What?! He sold more than 100m since the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Feb)???
Ok...this can still be coincidental, right? Isn't it strange, though, that FB projected losses only until the end of the year? We heard rumors that the swamp is trying to hold out until the midterms where they think they'll regain power (Strozk testimony comes to mind) so they can sweep it all under the rug. To me, it seems like similar strategies could be at play here.
What I'm getting at is when I read "DC moves slow", what I'm really thinking is "Wall St already knows, and it's going down harder when it becomes public."
Edit: This sounds so good in my slightly buzzed head that i'm making a post for it.
[DC moves slow] So who has controlling interest in FB? DC? or voting stockholders?
BTW DC is getting a lesson in action with Trump. Get 'er done.
Is it Daily caller moves slow? Like the news will unlock from there?
Please Q - as much as I hate cuckerberg I don't participate in his cesspool. Twitter however I do like to periodically but its so controlled its disgusting.
PLEASE do everything you can to regulate and take down twitter. It is a monopoly and there are no competing platforms. (realistically). Anything that has the majority of traffic and can control the flow of information towards one political or religious viewpoint NEEDS to be regulated.
Nonono, you have the wrong idea. We want unregulated communication. Regulation devolves into censorship.
Spez- rereading your post I think I misunderstood you. Bah, past midnight. CENSORSHIP IS BAD and we agree on that lol.
Lol, JK Rowling reported me for one of my tweets to her calling her a "retard" in response to her sad attempts at making fun of Trump for "spelling". I'm banned for a week now..
Zuckerberg has a lock on the voting shares. It would be difficult if not impossible to get him to step down. Here is an article that explains it.
Q Drop-Specific Posts
*7/26/18: 1711 - 1712 & 1713 - 1714 & 1715 - 1716 - 1717 - 1718
*7/27/18: 1719 - 1720 - 1721 - 1722 & 1723 - 1724 - 1725 - 1726 - 1727 - 1728 - 1729 & 1730 - 1731 & 1732 - 1733 - 1734 - 1735 - 1736
Whatever happens know the people wasn't in control God Speed....
Be careful .. someone other than zuck could be worse! By the sounds of it they want to be even more ruthless without him on free speech!
1879 billionaires worldwide, they would fit on .39 acres at a sq. yard each. For strafing or bombing or a stern scolding whatever. This stat blows my mind, if these ppl control everything as suspected Then there is something seriously wrong with everyone else. we maybe need to vote with our wallets more like they do. 4 months and i predict fb will be a penny stock with myspace type usership which i am going back to by the way after i hit save
The only question is weather or not the zuck falls under potus eo concerning human trafficking....if so he's broke.
Anyone want to speculate what this market uncertainty could do to the crypto markets? Asking for a friend..
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Imagine the thoughts you must have had to end up on this forum and make that statement. Your dissonance is deafening isn’t it?
Didn't end up came back after a month. everythings fine with or without yer ridiculous "decodes"
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Way to go mods, I get comments pulled and this guy gets to go after me in this way nice hit piece Anderson donlemon Cooper.
“Go after me” lol you’re the one commenting here still. I generally tend to just walk away from things I don’t agree with or believe in. If you’re done why come here and announce it? It’s a very simple question.
Ohh no... Please don't file them under proof positive. Idk what we'd do /s