• Glytch@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Does he fund it to the point of no longer being a billionaire? No? Then my point stands.

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        11 days ago

        You want Newell to sell Valve to some retirement investment fund? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in a while.

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        10 days ago

        Tell me you don’t understand net worth without telling me you don’t understand net worth. Do you think being a billionaire means holding a 10,000,000 $100 bills under your mattress?

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          Net worth can, and is, used as collateral for taking out large loans with little to no interest. So I would say net worth is a pretty good equivalent of cash under the mattress. It just takes one step to access that cash.

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            10 days ago

            Loans have to be repaid and I’m not talking about liquidity. If you have a billion $ in cash and use it to fund a billion $ research vessel, you have a billion $ research vessel. You’re still a billionaire. Gaben owns large portion of Valve, a multi billion $ company. The only way for him to no longer be a billionaire is to either

            • Sell his stake in Valve and burn, give away or otherwise loose all the money.
            • Devalue Valve to the point that it’s no longer worth billions of $.