{"id":9413,"date":"2011-07-11T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tech_bubble_talk_from_eric_schmidt.html"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T09:21:16","slug":"tech-bubble-talk-from-eric-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tech-bubble-talk-from-eric-schmidt.html","title":{"rendered":"Tech Bubble Talk from Eric Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we in a bubble or not? Google&#8217;s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt thinks the idea is worth paying attention to. He isn&#8217;t declaring we are in one but he says either the revenue growth of these new tech companies is so large that the valuations are justified or that there is a liquidity squeeze where a large amount of capital is chasing a small amount of shares.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line is we don&#8217;t know if we are in a bubble &#8211; but we will likely learn if we are in 2012 when much of the share lock up periods expire. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, he mentioned that although many people said Google was overvalued when it went public, it never dropped below its offering price.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=QzZ2dtMjokf782jce3JUeDDH66HOVJWZ&amp;height=270&amp;video_pcode=11amo6qGw2oucN78pR-BYbDpCESk&amp;width=448&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=QzZ2dtMjokf782jce3JUeDDH66HOVJWZ\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gary Kim at IP Carrier has <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcarrier.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/you-dont-know-its-bubble-until-bubble.html\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we in a bubble or not? Google&#8217;s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt thinks the idea is worth paying attention to. He isn&#8217;t declaring we are in one but he says either the revenue growth of these new tech companies is so large that the valuations are justified or that there is a liquidity squeeze where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,163,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}