20, they ordered 20 of them.
I'm just in awe of such a thing, who even gets to make that phone call "Yep, well take 20". I imagine the amount of people involved in such an undertaking dwarfs a few entire industries.
I'm just in awe of such a thing, who even gets to make that phone call "Yep, well take 20". I imagine the amount of people involved in such an undertaking dwarfs a few entire industries.
This illustrated to me that directors of finance companies can make multi billion deals and yet only few people knew about it... There was no teams working on it, bunch of risk management people trying to figure if this is worth it. Just one guy encouraged by few of his employees...
Aircraft leasing is a well-defined, finite market with most of the commonly-leased aircraft types having well-understood risk characteristics, and the lessors can and invariably do buy reputable independent opinions on market lease rates, residual values and empirical data on market activity (they can buy them by contacting me, actually :-) ) In many respects it's more risky to throw a large team at building a model to come up with a contrarian view.
Needless to say, the airline will throw far more people at trying to ensure they can keep up with the lease repayments and bills from actually operating the aircraft and there are quite a few lawyers and technical consultants involved in the final signoff and aircraft redelivery. Similarly, some teams involved in supply chain management and business development at Maersk must have spent a vast amount of time figuring out the logistics of filling larger ships in future, which based on how little time the last generation of "biggest ships ever" stayed in service is a much bigger gamble than most airlines will ever make.
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In this case, 100 of these ships.
I have a feeling something is not quite right here.
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/042660:KS
[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/01/us-samsung-hvy-ind...
If they can monetize 10% of whatsapp users for 100 usd per year, that's 4.5 billion, so that 20 billion will come back soon. Just the .99 USD App Store yearly fee nets them probably enough to run the thing.
Also, opportunity cost, grabbing those sweet-sweet innocent users from the table before others, probably worth something too.
It's scary how big these numbers are, how little difference we can perceive of them behind our screens. Probably the best way is via images like these: https://www.google.com/search?q=hong+kong+protest+phones&saf...
And I'm sure the Rapa Nui down in Easter Island also had some kind of self-consistent story to tell themselves too.
Has any mobile user ever been monetized for $100/year, on any software ever...?
After China joined the WTO in 2001 and their exports and exploded, steamship lines extrapolated that growth indefinitely and ordered as many new ships as they could finance. Since it takes about 5 years from order to delivery, a glut of capacity hit at about the same time as the 2008 global financial crisis. So in 2009 all the major steamship lines lost upwards of a billion dollars each. I doubt any of them have made that money back since, and many have been dependent on a series of emergency equity sales and government bailouts.
I imagine this is just a big, hollow piece of steel with propellers in the back and room for as many containers as possible.
> Only 15 crew live on the ship when it is at sea, and their living quarters make up the tower that sits under the bridge.
Compare this to a 747, which is designed to transport 350 people through the air.