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nodesocket
on March 26, 2015
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Exchangel – Fantasy Angel Investing
You can only short public companies, so why should you be able to short any company in fantasy investing?
eru
on March 26, 2015
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Why not? No need to restrict our fantasy investing to what people think is proper.
taylorwc
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I'd guess the comment was less about 'what people think is proper,' and more about the fact that there are typically no mechanisms by which to short very early stage private companies.
eru
on March 28, 2015
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Yes. I guess I think games ought to be more awesome than life.
pyvpx
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because fantasy investing is fundamentally a prediction market (IMO)
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