“He explained that baseball doesn’t focus on earnings; you look at revenues and assume they’ll lead to earnings later.”

Freakonomics Radio · 691. Is This What a “Good Billionaire” Looks Like?

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Valued the Orioles based on revenue multiples rather than earnings, treating the team as a revenue-driven asset

$1.75 billion purchase price; median MLB team worth less than half the median NFL team

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“We ended up re-sharding a bunch of our data to be, um, fetchable by channel ID rather than by team ID. And then that allows for much better horizontal sharding structure as well.”
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“My rough mental framework is if a company is over a hundred million dollars in revenue and they have profitability, if you're growing at more than 30% year on year, you have the right to trade at a revenue multiple.”
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“An exercise I found very helpful though, rather than wait till you have the backfill is ask folks to stack rank their sub functions within their team.”
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