Think about what happens when successful entrepren

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Think about what happens when successful entrepreneurs sell their company. What do they do with the money? In a financialized world, it unfolds like this: • The founders don’t know what to do with it, so they give it to a large bank. • The bankers don’t know what to do with it, so they diversify by spreading it across a portfolio of institutional investors. • Institutional investors don’t know what to do with their managed capital, so they diversify by amassing a portfolio of stocks. • Companies try to increase their share price by generating free cash flows.

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Think about what happens
Think about what happens
when successful entrepreneurs sell
when successful entrepreneurs sell
their company. What do
their company. What do
they do with the
they do with the
money? In a financialized
money? In a financialized
world, it unfolds like
world, it unfolds like
this: • The founders
this: • The founders
don’t know what to
don’t know what to
do with it, so
do with it, so
they give it to
they give it to
a large bank. •
a large bank. •
The bankers don’t know
The bankers don’t know
what to do with
what to do with
it, so they diversify
it, so they diversify
by spreading it across
by spreading it across
a portfolio of institutional
a portfolio of institutional
investors. • Institutional investors
investors. • Institutional investors
don’t know what to
don’t know what to
do with their managed
do with their managed
capital, so they diversify
capital, so they diversify
by amassing a portfolio
by amassing a portfolio
of stocks. • Companies
of stocks. • Companies
try to increase their
try to increase their
share price by generating
share price by generating
free cash flows.
free cash flows.

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