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[ignore: Didn't they get an offer from Microsoft a few years ago for 125B or something?] I think what makes it a huge failure is that 5B is basically what they
by dudul 10y ago
[ignore: Didn't they get an offer from Microsoft a few years ago for 125B or something?]
I think what makes it a huge failure is that 5B is basically what they spent just to acquire one company.
Edit: Based on the replies the first part of my comment is inaccurate.
- yesplorer 10y agoNo. The $125b was the valuation during the 1990s. Microsoft offered way less - $44b.
- dudul 10y agoOK, my bad, I got confused with the numbers :)
- akkartik 10y agoThe Microsoft offer was for $45B: http://news.microsoft.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-proposes-acquisition-of-yahoo-for-31-per-share http://news.microsoft.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-proposes-acqu... The market cap of Yahoo was still around half that when Mayer was appointed. But that was all from their stake in Alibaba, which has already been spun off. The rest of Yahoo had a negative value, I think. So it's gone from 0 (conservatively) to $5B.