Late stage growth investors won't tolerate giving away a bunch of stock and will hold companies accountable like a public company that runs them off a cliff. The fast cycle time of creative destruction in free market capitalism has contributed to this level of tolerance.
The two companies have different strategies for acquiring and retaining customers - Stripe focuses on a large number of tail customers while Adyen targets larger enterprise customers. While both companies have seen success, Adyen's approach has resulted in maintaining and raising long-term profit projections.
The next few years may lead to around $500 billion in capital loss, and it may lead to the destruction of trillions of dollars in 2018 and beyond. As a result of recent layoffs at corporations like Metta, many talented people may seek new opportunities at startups or smaller companies.
In this podcast conversation, the speakers discuss the possibility of virtual reality devices, such as Apple's goggles, Google Glass, HoloLens, and Oculus, becoming a new computing modality used every day for two hours, and predictions for which company will come out on top in the race to dominate the market.
Learn the basic rules of numbers when it comes to stock market corrections and understand how they can move in advance of interest rates being raised or lowered.
The traditional notion that companies need to outsource to grow is changing. Many startups such as Milk Makeup and Deciem are now keeping their entire businesses in-house and gaining similar success to their outsourced competitors.