Stacey Campbellstacey_campbell@aus.social
Nov 3, 2025, 2:20 PMEveryone who was around in 2000 watching the current tech stock situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bursting_the_bubble
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- Stacey Campbellstacey_campbell@aus.socialOct 21, 2026, 1:40 AM
Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports
- Stacey Campbellstacey_campbell@aus.socialOct 25, 2026, 5:18 PM
Inflation adjusted NASDAQ. Wheeee!
TuchowskiadipoeserPursch@troet.cafeNov 3, 2025, 4:41 PM
Parade du Grotesque 💀ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.orgNov 3, 2025, 4:44 PM
David J. Atkinsonmeltedcheese@c.imNov 3, 2025, 7:56 PM@stacey_campbell Nailed it.
Nov 4, 2025, 12:16 AM@stacey_campbell I sold half my stocks in August-September. Missed out on some gains for sure, but this market is super bubbly.
Mart7naionilluminaeti@mastodon.socialNov 4, 2025, 12:34 AM@stacey_campbell That's just too funny
Dec 22, 2025, 3:13 PM
AJ Sadauskasajsadauskas@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 10:32 AM@stacey_campbell Just to put Anthropic's losses into perspective.
Let's say you're a well-paid professional who gets paid an average of $100,000 per year pretax. Over a 50-year career, you'll earn $5 million pretax.
In just half a year, Anthropic lost the equivalent of the entire lifetime earnings of 16,000 well-paid professionals who earn $100,000 a year.
- AJ Sadauskasajsadauskas@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 10:40 AM
@stacey_campbell Let me put it another way.
Think about your employer for a moment. Just imagine what would happen if one year your bosses reported a $1 billion loss.
If you're not in the public sector, there's a good chance the business or organisation you work for would go under.
Well, Anthropic currently loses more than $3 billion *every week*.
- AJ Sadauskasajsadauskas@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 10:53 AM
@stacey_campbell Let me put it a different way.
Anthropic's revenues are currently $16.8 billion per quarter. With that amount of revenue, it's losing $40 billion a quarter.
That means for every $1 of revenue currently coming in, it would need an additional $2.38 just to break even.
So every $1 of tokens costs the company $3.38 to produce.
Oct 25, 2026, 9:29 AM@ajsadauskas @stacey_campbell @aj The $80 billion loss is a bit misleading as I understand it.
$72 billion of that is related to "convertable notes" and the increase in the company valuation.
That said, yeah they seem to be running at a loss. And until there's actually audited numbers, it's hard to know the true story.
Otte Homan :: fediologistotte_homan@theblower.auOct 25, 2026, 9:43 AM@troberts @ajsadauskas there is no company valuation. Just wait. @stacey_campbell @aj
- Otte Homan :: fediologistotte_homan@theblower.auOct 25, 2026, 9:43 AM
@ajsadauskas imagine being a CFO for a shop like this and go "yeah all good, no worries mate" ... @stacey_campbell
Oct 26, 2026, 12:23 PM- Otte Homan :: fediologistotte_homan@theblower.auOct 25, 2026, 9:30 AM
@ajsadauskas yeah but it's borrowed money from a circular loan pyramid scheme so it's okay. We're not going to cry if NVIDIA suddenly has to pivot back to providing gamerz with GPUs again. @stacey_campbell
Andrew de Ridderandrew_deridder@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 9:29 AM@ajsadauskas @stacey_campbell they didn’t “lose” it, they ignited it into our atmosphere as heat and particles
AzuaronAzuaron@cyberpunk.lolOct 25, 2026, 3:00 PM@andrew_deridder @ajsadauskas @stacey_campbell
Well, a lot of that was weird financial bullshit and not real losses. The real losses, IIRC, were only something like $40 billion.I misread the earlier post and thought we were talking about all of 2025, where I know they had a bunch of weird financial bullshit losses that weren't "real" losses. I can't say that the $80 billion losses for the first half of this year aren't real.
- AJ Sadauskasajsadauskas@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 8:54 PM
@Azuaron @andrew_deridder @stacey_campbell A $40 billion half-year loss, divided by 26 weeks, means Anthropic is "only" losing $1.5 billion every single week, rather than $3 billion every week.
Most other businesses would either be in liquidation or sold off to private equity if they lost $1.5 billion over a *year*.
That's an obscene amount of money.
- AzuaronAzuaron@cyberpunk.lolOct 25, 2026, 11:20 PM
@ajsadauskas @andrew_deridder @stacey_campbell Apologies, I actually have to retract what I was saying. I just realized we're talking about the first half of 2026, and not the whole of 2025. The weird financial bullshit happened in 2025; I don't know if any of their 2026 losses were weird financial bullshit or not; they very well might have $80 billion in real losses this year.
OddOpinions5failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.toOct 25, 2026, 6:48 PMevery young person who started their 401(K) or equivalent in 2001, in 2010:
this stock market thing you told me was so great, it isn't working ????
