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bybobby ( 109046 ) writes:
If I see a company hiring, it's reasonable to conclude they're doing well and might have good future.
If a company is laying off, sure they might be short-term cost-cutting / profiting, but I would be concerned about their long-term.
Maybe investors are learning? Maybe AI's learning is helping investors see bigger picture?
byreanjr ( 588767 ) writes:
It definitely sounds like the LLM bubble is bursting. Classic middle management wealth destruction.
bydevslash0 ( 4203435 ) writes:
Not sure if it's bursting yet but the bubble mechanics definitely keep shifting. If layoffs - being companies being on a resource diet plans - are no longer bringing in value, then it makes you wonder what is the next thing for companies to do. What sort of new hell/metric they are going to bring.
Logic suggests that companies should be valued based on their performance, their ability to actually create value, but we all know that instead of creating value they will instead try every trick in the book to bul
bygtall ( 79522 ) writes:
There's another trick companies are pulling, they are delisting or never listing on the stock exchanges and going to private equity markets. Those investors too are starting to get the chills. It appears that company listings on stock exchanges has dropped 50% from 1990 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesmoss/2025/02/03/the-decline-in-us-stocks-to-choose-from-what-it-means-for-investors/ however, going to that site means wading through a blizzard of cross-site crap that noscrpt is blocking for me). According
byArmoredDragon ( 3450605 ) writes:
The reason not to go public is that Wall Street has a tendency to force your company to stray from its mission in favor of faster growth. Case in point, southwest airlines: You can't be the most loved airline if you're going to throw out basically everything that your customers liked about you to begin with. But some activist Wall Street investor believes they'll grow faster by being more like other airlines. Are they right? Maybe. Time will tell. Other investors seem to believe so. If they were private, an
byZontar_Thing_From_Ve ( 949321 ) writes:
The reason not to go public is that Wall Street has a tendency to force your company to stray from its mission in favor of faster growth. Case in point, southwest airlines: You can't be the most loved airline if you're going to throw out basically everything that your customers liked about you to begin with.
I actually hate Southwest Airlines and refuse to fly them because I don't like how they run their airline. And I have had enough of their fans who get screwed over by them (We bumped you - ha ha ha!) and act like all their bs is somehow "normal".
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byrickb928 ( 945187 ) writes:
'refuse to fly them because I don't like how they run their airline.'
Um, this is the complaint by someone about every single airline, the only possible exception Qatar Airways, and there it's just pricing complaints, which are universal also.
Really, SWA is not unique in this. And they are not unique in finally annoying a measurable fraction of their customer base. Most other US domestic airlines did that decades ago, and have just perfected the annoyances/profit expanders since.
Such low-hanging fruit. You c
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