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Are Startups Getting Crazy, Or Just IPO Crazy?
- aresant 17y agoI think this is a reflection of how consolidated consumer tech is becoming - he who owns the user, wins the game. AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT have roughly $100,000,000,000 of unspent cash - they can afford to pay a premium rate over market at this point to buy a strategic asset.
- hga 17y agoIt would be interesting to see if SarBox (the Sarbanes–Oxley Act) wasn't the only.the major/a major reason for the death of the IPO in the US, as many have claimed. (I've always thought it was more of a "last straw" than the answer many portray it to be.)