How do we actually define a company's true category?
Consider Amazon—is it just a bookstore, or has it evolved into something fundamentally different? Same question with Tesla. For years, skeptics dismissed its valuation as absurd. Sure, it looked insane if you were valuing it as a traditional automaker. But what if you're looking at the only publicly traded pure-play vehicle in a completely different market segment?
The narrative is shifting. Investors are finally starting to recognize that these aren't one-dimensional businesses anymore. They're platforms. Ecosystems. And that changes everything about how we should approach valuation.
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GateUser-e19e9c10
· 2h ago
Amazon is still selling books, Tesla is still making cars, this is your truth.
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ParallelChainMaxi
· 18h ago
Amazon was just selling books back then, but now they sell everything. Are they still an e-commerce platform? Honestly, categorization is becoming less and less meaningful.
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RooftopVIP
· 18h ago
Woke up, finally someone has explained this thing clearly
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ColdWalletGuardian
· 18h ago
Was Amazon a bookstore back then? That's a joke. Who still thinks that way now? LOL. The same goes for those Tesla trolls—insisting on valuing it like traditional car companies. They really haven't understood that the game has changed.
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ETH_Maxi_Taxi
· 18h ago
Amazon started by selling books and now sells everything. Tesla has transformed from electric vehicles to energy + AI + robots. This is the magic of platformization... Traditional valuation models are directly breaking down here.
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NonFungibleDegen
· 19h ago
ngl this is exactly why i kept aping into tesla at $180 lol... everyone was calling me ngmi but the category shift was RIGHT THERE. amazon literally went from bookstore to owning half the internet and people still sleep on how ecosystems actually moon valuations fr fr
How do we actually define a company's true category?
Consider Amazon—is it just a bookstore, or has it evolved into something fundamentally different? Same question with Tesla. For years, skeptics dismissed its valuation as absurd. Sure, it looked insane if you were valuing it as a traditional automaker. But what if you're looking at the only publicly traded pure-play vehicle in a completely different market segment?
The narrative is shifting. Investors are finally starting to recognize that these aren't one-dimensional businesses anymore. They're platforms. Ecosystems. And that changes everything about how we should approach valuation.