Context: The idea of this post is to add more scale perspective on some of the numbers discussed in the post Online Advertising Companies. The companies analysed there have a total market cap of $1.65 trillion on July 31, 2018. (Facebook: ~$494 billion, Alphabet ~$848 billion, and Twitter is very small comparatively at ~$23 billion).
Personal Context: The recent drop in Facebook market cap (July 2018) was the trigger to this further analysis. Add to that, a recent twitter discussion on S&P 500 stocks pie chart made me wonder about the contributions of the top few stocks. My personal investing experience has primarily been in the early -mid stage growth
Personal Context: About ten years ago, I was part of a private equity team that managed and exited a water & wastewater treatment company. I spent a lot of time with the management, and lot more time on the company’s strategy and financials, creating the pitch for sale, and prospectus for an IPO. All the
This was originally published on Medium (March 2016) Defined simply, Private Equity (PE) helps in matching medium-term capital (in the form of equity) to deserving private companies as those businesses move from one level to the next on their growth curve. In the process, PE helps deliver superior returns to its investors, which range from
