Isn’t this a very common phrase? Surely, someone already thought about this?

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    You just know someone bought that domain hoping to turn it into a gangbusters online clothes retailer and the best they could manage to do is camp on it and sell it.

    Could’ve been Bezos, instead was a bozo.

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      Were they a bozo, though? If they sold that domain to FB, there is a great chance they just banked like gangbusters.

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        I suppose it depends on your outlook. I’d rather have had the passive income over time paid in stock options that multiply in value that I can get interest free loans against to file tax losses than the one time payout you have to pay gains on.

        Hindsight is 20/20

        Edit to add: there’s also a non zero chance that Meta swooped in like Disney did to Central Florida, set up a secret shell company to buy the property under value so no one knows what big business is behind the acquisition.