>>>>>>It is difficult to explain so complicated things to a novice. You should better start with basics. 2-years college with Economic 101 course would be a good start.
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>>>>>Yes, guru.
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>>>>>So, the 98,000 come from meditation?
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>>>>Nope. It came from misconception. 'Value' is not an economic category. In other words, your imagination created something that you bravely disproved in your next sentence.
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>>>So the company's worth is imagined to be $200K - it's actually worth nothing, because, economically, it has no value? The $102K were paid in a fit of silliness, or at least, economic ignorance?
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>>You are wrong about "paid", anything else in this link from imagination to ignorance stands true. Really, Dragan, one should not pontificate about things where he/she does not have enough experience. Imagination cannot replace knowledge especially in the area well traversed by generations.
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>So these stocks were given out for free?

There is some difference between 'stock price', 'stock value' and 'company value'. I feel that the root of your problem is that your imagination mixes them together. Stock price, that's where you started, is basically the same thing as any other price, i.e. you have buyers and sellers bargaining about the price. When they get into agreement, you have the price. Stock value is more long-term idea, i.e. some 'average' number around which stock price may ocsillate for long time, it includes elements of prognostication in regard to both company and general economy future performance. Company value is something derived and measured in accounting terms, i.e. assets and liabilities,as it stands now.
Hopefully, you understand that I had to simplify all three notions. It would be naive to assume that all human knowledge in regard to these complicated matters could be squeezed in one short message.