You're blaming Nvidia. You should be blaming SoftBank and Masayoshi Son: bunch of fucking hucksters misleading people and making bad investments.
Now they need to sell ARM to fill some of the gaping void that has resulted. They couldn't care less who they sell to and what the outcome of that sale will be. I have nothing but contempt for them.
An absolutely miserable turn of events.
You shouldn't be blaming bad investors. They pay for their decisions with their, or more often somebody's else, money.
Blame the collective ownership of means of production, which in form of public companies have dominated the Western world for the last 30+ years.
When people think of of selling their business, which is their life's work, as a raison d'etre, something is really messed up with the business culture in that person's coutnry.
> Blame the collective ownership of means of production, which in form of public companies have dominated the Western world for the last 30+ years.
Can you unpack these two points? I don’t understand. It sounds like you’re saying “don’t blame the owners (because investors ARE owners); blame the owners”.
Publicly traded companies allow shareholders to limit their risk - when things start to go wrong you sell your shares to a bigger fool, and it's not your problem anymore. Also, as shareholders are not personally responsible for wrongdoings of their companies it also limits the risk to the buyer.
In short: publicly traded companies are enablers for moral hazard that we constantly observe in financial markets.
That's a bit of a grandiloquent take on reasons that could lead one to start a business.
Vision Fund isn't "public", and most of the companies they invest in aren't "public".