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Ambiguity Drives Google's Valuation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-want-a-cfo dept.

BreadMan writes "The Economist has an article about how Google uses its amorphous positioning to gain investor interest. At the current valuation (the P/E is north of 110) this is a winning formula, but the article questions the long-term soundness. The reporter was chagrined that the last press tour focused more on the CFO (Chief Food Officer) and the monthly pasta consumption (500 lbs) than products or financial performance of the company."

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  1. CFO? by SolusSD · · Score: 5, Funny

    wish we had a cfo. we don even have a vending machine!

    1. Re:CFO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny


      Vending machine! Hah, in my day we only had fridges that looked like this!

  2. Lets be honest by davidmcw · · Score: 5, Funny

    500lbs is an awful lot of pasta

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    Just because your paranoid doesn't really mean they aren't out to get you
    1. Re:Lets be honest by 14erCleaner · · Score: 5, Funny
      500lbs is an awful lot of pasta

      If you read the article, you'd know that they use 3 pounds of coffee beans for every pound of pasta. No wonder they're so productive, they never sleep!

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    2. Re:Lets be honest by cyclopropene · · Score: 2, Funny
      500lbs is an awful lot of pasta

      Forget the pasta. 112lbs is a helluva lot of wheatgrass!

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      Shouldn't you be doing something useful?
  3. Damn - How do I get THAT job... by TJ_Phazerhacki · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sounds like a ful-filling position.

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    Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
  4. Formula by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. PR posted on slashdot.org frequently.
    2. ???
    3. Profit.

    1. Re:Formula by bigpat · · Score: 2, Funny

      It could be quite sometime til the cork is pulled - a few thousand years? - but sooner or later it happens.

      That's like 3 weeks in Internet time.

  5. Who cares about pasta by Dakrin1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about the 2.300 lbs of chicken, 1,600 lbs of coffee beans, and 112 lbs of wheatgrass(??)!

    David

  6. Re:Proven innovation drives it... by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > Its turned into a giant Ponzi scheme that will end up with a lot of money going down the toilet, which could potentially bring a lot of other things down with it too.

    ...Poogle?

  7. Google is people. by esmokey · · Score: 3, Funny

    The FA doesn't mention how much solient green the employees consume in an average month.

  8. Why didn't Douglas Adams think of that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Sirius Cybernetic Systems Corp. is pleased to announce the release of the Ambiguity Drive to the public. The Drive allows the user to travel quickly and inexpensively across vast distances without locating precisely either the starting or ending points of any trip. The result is an easy, scenic jounrey through the galaxy with none of the inconveniences of infinite improbability.

    It also works if you are lost.

  9. Re:Proven innovation drives it... by Golias · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy shit, the one joke I crack in the entire post, and nearly every reply focuses in on jumping all over me for daring to say anything bad about Gmail.

    Okay. You are cool for having a Gmail account. I'm so jealous that I now wish I had accepted one of the fifty-bajillion invites that crapflooded my inbox a few months ago. Oh, woe is me, that I must suffer along with my local e-mail client.

    There, happy now?

    Shit, it's like walking on egg shells with you people sometimes.

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  10. Re:Pride Cometh Before the Fall... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "When the shoeshine boy starts giving you tips, it is time to get out of the market."

    You're not a shoe shine boy, are you?

    If so, does that mean I should buy?