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The Dramatic Fall of Carvana, “The Amazon of Used Cars” (thestreet.com)
15 points by Octokiddie on Jan 9, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Carvana’s current market capitalization is $840 million.

The founder cashed out $3.6 billion in shares at the height of the bull market [1].

Lesson: You can sell BS, light money on fire and make no profit, and still come out on top…Just ask Uber’s Travis Kalanick (cashed out $4B), Postmates’ Bastian Lehman (sold startup for $2.7B), Adam Neumann (got a $1B payout after burning through many billions), etc.

1- https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/carvana-ceos-dad-goes-on-3-6-b...


Seems like a classic case of a company claiming to be a tech play that was just a thinly-veiled leveraged bet on asset prices.




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