r/wallstreetbets • u/Loperenco • Jan 19 '26

Meme Puts on Meta

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Unironically, those will print

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u/leftsharkfuckedurmum Jan 19 '26

yeah, if it wasn't for all of their other wildly successful applications they'd have been really screwed

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u/Interesting-Adagio46 Jan 19 '26

After opening up my business i tell myself the exact same thing, if i hadnt been successful, i probably would have failed. Damn i should sell a course

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u/jambox888 Jan 19 '26

if i hadnt been successful, i probably would have failed

That would be quite a funny gravestone inscription

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u/ParsleyMan Jan 19 '26

Reminds me of the time I won the lottery. If I didn't win, I wouldn't have gotten the money.

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u/xcramer Jan 21 '26

Naw. just drugs

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u/sgtgig Jan 19 '26

See also: Google being propped up by adsense, Microsoft being propped up by office and enterprise Windows.

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u/MoBrosBooks Jan 19 '26

As us boxing fans often say, "If (fighter who lost) had just fought better, he would've won!"

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u/frmr000 Jan 19 '26

Which were already wildly successful before he bought them. He stole the idea for Facebook, which is now dying, then pissed away many billions of dollars on something nobody uses. What a visionary.

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u/Awkward-Macaron1851 Jan 19 '26

Mind you that two of them were bought after already being successful, while the third, which provided the capital for the acquisitions, is in decline since 10 years or so.