What big companies do you think will not be around in the next 5 years?

netflix could be bought by someone like amazon / google

Facebook - gone

SpaceX - one crash away from it all going wrong

tiktok - social media burn bright crash hard

anything boris johnston owns

anything trump owns

you like facebook?

ads for dads is all it is.

None of those companies mentioned will be gone in 5 years.

This thread is hilarious, seriously out of touch.

Netflix, Facebook gone in 5 years!

Realistically in the next 5 years, Uber & Lyft could be gone. Both have never made a profit with pressure on Uber now to be making money seeing as it's a stock traded company. Raising prices pushes it into regular taxi prices. It was banking on driverless cars as the future.

Just Eat is another tech unicorn that could soon be gone. Massive losses every year with no path to profitability. Soon the money will run out. They lost over 1 billion last year!

Again seriously!

I don't use them so they must be obselete.

PayPal made 1 billion profit last year & are the leading web payment company in the world.

The only car manufacturers that will disappear are the small Asian brands which will upset AMKC.

Subaru, Suzuki, Daihatsu will be absorbed in Toyota making clones of Toyota vehicles.

Mazda & Honda are too small to survive the EV revolution without some sort of platform sharing development deal. See Honda deal with Sony on EV & car tech/sensors.

They are terrible, but the banking system in the US is worse. They'll easily be around in 5 years, but maybe not so much in Europe.

Totally, look at the Netflix financials, swimming in cash and assets too. Highly profitable

I think I posted that mistakenly. New boards keeping my drafts 😡

I think they could definitely see a decline in the next five years but I doubt they'll be gone altogether.

As for what would drive that decline, as you mentioned the constant price increases without any tangible improvements in service would be chief amongst the reasons, I also see that they're planning to "crack down" on password sharing which seems like a punitive measure against an issue that isn't really that big of a deal for them and could end up having a negative impact in the long run.

The issue of password sharing is essentially the cost of doing business for a streaming service, next they'll have biometric sign in or something over the top like that, there's always another dreadful idea along those lines in the name of squeezing every last penny out of the customer with those type of companies.

I do find it bizarre that people use PayPal.

Why I ask???!!!

A couple of reasons to use it.

Paypal will cover cost of postage for returns up to €30 per item (12 times per year I think)

Also,and this I did not know about.

I bought 3 tyres online about a month ago.

2 weeks later I got €30 (€10 per tyre cash back) refunded into straight into my bank account.

Showed up in my account as "PAYPAL REWARD).

Simplicity - If I'm buying something and I can either enter a username and password, or else go looking for my wallet, get my card, enter 16 digits, then 4 digits, then my name, then 3 more digits, I typically choose the username password option everytime.

We're due a big retailer hitting the wall; few years ago I'd have guessed Next but their financials are decent now. M&S?

I can't see it there food sales are still incredibly strong

It's hard to see how their model of importing absolutely everything on the food shelves into Ireland makes sense.

I use it on my smart TV and find it grand, every feature is a doddle to use…before that on my iPad when traveling for work… again never an issue…

Very few if any car manufacturers aren't embracing the change, which are you talking about?

In keeping with this thread.

ESB. Definitely gone within 5 years.