https://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebr...
Only on a tangent - it's an otherwise fascinating episode from a database wizard.
>In fact, I would be wary of software companies without a base of free users, as that means the company needs to keep spending a lot of its revenue on sales and marketing. I am much more wary of companies that keep or burning cash for years and years with the only excuse that "Amazon did that as well".
I think about this a little differently. Spending money on free users is actually a much more efficient "marketing expense" than classic outbound strategies (e.g., online advertising).
Are these good examples, though? Dropbox is down ~35% since IPOing, and Slack is down almost 50%. This certainly suggests the market thinks they were both overvalued when they IPO'd.
Slack went public at $26, it is at $23.50 today. It is less than 10% less than the IPO price.
What happens when the inevitable correction comes? The Fed will run out of monetary tricks, eventually.
No, it won't.
It might run into a monetary-policy resistant situation (e.g., stagflation), but the Fed has infinite range of monetary policy tricks available (literally, there's no floor to rates now that the Fed has taken notice of the use of negative rates elsewhere.)