• Neato
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    1101 year ago

    Seeing a report like that, that they did all these things to raise funds and are still not profitable, is there any reason why anyone would invest? Surely the price can only go down from initial offering, right? Unless the price started very low.

    • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      731 year ago

      People who invest are betting that the problems can be solved by a new team or when the company is sold to Facebook.

      • @db2@lemmy.world
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        611 year ago

        Imagine thinking that about a company that isn’t even doing remotely as well as Lycos.

        That’s right, it still exists and unlike reddit it’s profitable.

        • @Clbull@lemmy.worldOP
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          51 year ago

          Lycos isn’t even a particularly bad search engine. It’s just been overshadowed by bigger players like Google, Bing, Baidu, DDG, Yandex, etc. I imagine that their low traffic helps to lower their operating costs a lot.