• SW42@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Fuck this guy in particular. One of the wall street scum bags at the same level as a16z. If they think something is good you can bet it’s the opposite.

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    Thats always where things are right before the over leveraging of a company’s market dominance makes them less competitive and they fall off 😅

  • The Grump@r.nf
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    Google may have already disrupted Microsoft’s dominance somewhat. At least here in Finland a lot of businesses prefer to use Google Workspace rather than Office365 - everybody also seem to think that Google’s solution is far superior usability and performance wise compared to the Office and the sluggish mess that is Microsoft Teams. It also doesn’t hurt that Google is also offering free tier Workspace; few of the hobby groups I’m part of have chosen Workspace for file storage, remote meetings etc., without any discussion on what solution to use. It seems as if Google Workspace is now the default solution the same way MS Office was in the early 2000’s. But these are just my observations and are also limited to Finland (and a little bit to Estonia) so the situation and attitudes might be really different elsewhere.

    Obviously Google’s Workspace being “free” means you, the user, are the product. But I also think that Google’s Workspace has probably demonstrated to the masses that there are alternatives to MS Office, and that MS Word is not the only text editing software in existence and that you don’t need Excel to work with spreadsheets. Maybe in 5 to 10 years LibreOffice, Euro Office and similar solutions have gained much more ground as people seem to be more aware of FOSS solutions and their benefits in general, especially in Europe where companies and public offices are pulling out from the US tech anyway.

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    according to the internet he has a return on investment of about 9% in the last 10 years (CAGR). msci world index (which is usually used to compare to see how well a fund performs, and has index funds which track it) made around 13.65% (so a lot higher).

    So i would not put too much attention to this guys opinion, sure maybe he is taking less chances (less scary drops in the fund value that some investor don’t like) but looking at the graphs it doesn’t seems that way.

    I think it’s a good to do this exercise , a lot of active investing seems like snake oil (although probably not all of it, at least according to some data and research). someone even wrote a book on the subject called “Where are the Customers’ Yachts”.

  • Tarambor@lemmy.world
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    Nokia and Blackberry anyone? Or how about any of the massive social networks that have been and gone? The downfall of a product or a company used by tens of millions of people is usually caused from within.

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    what does the 365 package give me that i dont have with a 3 dollar office 2016 key?

    also with all this fuckin money, how does he not have a presentable background at either the office or at home? are you this eager to use ai in every second of your life?

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlM
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    All because they throw it into b2b with teams and ado and windows and whatever other shit they call software.