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Supposing that a firm decides to engage in a very risky software investment, spending about $2 billion trying to compete against windows.
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Well, in this case, how might their diversified ownership allow them to have near -perfect risk spreading on this investment? and to do this, i think we can simplify it down pretty easily.
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So suppose that this particular company has two investments, right? the first of which is something other than this risky software investment.
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And it's what they typically do.
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And suppose that this first investment has very low risk to it.
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And then we take a look at their second investment, which is the software investment, which of course we were just told is very high risk.
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Now, if we take a look at a low risk and a high risk investment, they sort of cancel each other out what we're seeing here, or at least they counter one another...