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200 billion views a day — but a good company isn't a good stock
YouTube Shorts alone is 200 billion views a day. Flow's warning before you open Robinhood: a good company and a good stock are not the same thing — and you haven't even checked the price.
200 billion Shorts views a day = 200 billion chances to monetize attention — and the business behind YouTube is Alphabet (GOOGL). But Flow pumps the brakes before you buy: "a good company and a good stock are simply not the same thing. We ain't even check the price yet."
200 billion chances to monetize attention
"Shorts is 200 billion views a day," Flow notes — and "200 billion views every single day ain't just traffic, that's 200 billion chances to monetize attention." (The figure is real — YouTube's own CEO has cited ~200 billion daily Shorts views.) The business that captures it is Alphabet.
Good company ≠ good stock
Then the discipline: "before anybody opens that Robinhood app, y'all need to chill out. A good company and a good stock are simply not the same thing. We ain't even check the price yet." A dominant platform can still be a bad investment at the wrong price — which is exactly why the next question is valuation. See the full YouTube-economics breakdown →
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